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Piyush Chawla
Courses Plus Student 30 PointsI havn't understood some part
please explain me this - what is argv? what is the meaning of sys.argv[1] and sys.argv[1:]? what is the function of (line[::-1])?
1 Answer
Nicholas Anstis
2,095 Pointssys.argv The list of command line arguments passed to a Python script. argv[0] is the script name (it is operating system dependent whether this is a full pathname or not). If the command was executed using the -c command line option to the interpreter, argv[0] is set to the string '-c'. If no script name was passed to the Python interpreter, argv[0] is the empty string.
To loop over the standard input, or the list of files given on the command line, see the fileinput module.
Description: https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/sys.html
Remeber to visit the official python site when you get stuck :P