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have to prompt the user for one thing at
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a time by manually calling that input
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function so what does this mean in real
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terms well let me go ahead back into vs
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code here and let me propose that we
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consider how we might leverage a certain
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module i'm going to go ahead and create
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a file called
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name.pi and i'd like to use a new module
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this time that's going to give me access
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to
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values that have been typed at that
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command line but what's this module
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going to be well this one's going to be
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called sys and sys short for system
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contains a whole lot of functionality
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that's specific to the system itself and
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the commands that you and i are typing
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the documentation for this module is at
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this url here and it lists all of the
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various functions and variables and the
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like that come with that module but
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we're going to focus on something a
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little more specific namely this thing
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here it turns out in the sys module in
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python there is a variable that just
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magically exists for you called argv it
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stands for argument vector which is a
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fancy way of describing the list of all
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of the words that the human typed in at
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their prompt
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before they hit enter all of those are
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seemingly magically provided to you via
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python in a variable called sys.rgv
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this variable is a list which means that
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the first element is going to be the
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first word that you type the second
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element is going to be the second word
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that you typed and so forth and by way
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of this list then can you figure out
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what words did the human actually type
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at the prompt and maybe use that to
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influence the behavior of your own
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program so what does this mean now in
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real terms well in this new tab called
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name dot pi let me go ahead and import
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sys within that sys module is going to
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give me access to sys.rgv but how might
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i want to use it well let's do this
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instead of writing a hello world program
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that all of these times has just looked
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for the return value of input to figure
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out what the user wants me to print
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let's go ahead and just expect the user
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to tell us when they run the python
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program itself what their name is and
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suppose this time i'd like to generate a
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whole bunch of name tags initially just
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one and in the us here it's very common
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to wear a sticker on your lapel that
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says hello my name is david so i want to
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print out some text that resembles that
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the idea being maybe i could enhance
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this program someday to even send that
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text straight to the printer and
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dynamically generate those name tags
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well let me go ahead now and do this let
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me go ahead and print out as always
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hello but i'll say a little something
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more this time to make things more
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interesting hello my name is quote
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unquote and then after that i normally
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have been in the habit of calling input
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storing the return value in a variable
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and passing in the name of that variable
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here but i'm going to instead jump right
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to this
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sys.rv bracket one and that's it
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i'm going to have a program here that
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says hello my name is followed by
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whatever is in sys.rv bracket one and
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notice sis.rgv again is a list and
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recall from our discussion of loops and
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in turn list we use the square bracket
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notation to get at the various elements
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inside of a list all right let me go
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down now into my terminal window and run
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python of name dot pi but this time
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rather than just hit enter and wait for
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the program to prompt me for my name let
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me proactively just tell this program
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what my name is at the so-called command
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line here we go dav id separated with a
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space from the name of the file so that
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now when i execute python name dot pi
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david i see on the screen voila hello my
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name is david so based on this
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demonstration alone i think we can infer
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exactly what's going on in sys.rg even
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though it sounds certainly at first
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