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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst index f397f03..20fae9a 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/interpreter.rst @@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ Argument Passing ---------------- When known to the interpreter, the script name and additional arguments -thereafter are passed to the script in the variable ``sys.argv``, which is a -list of strings. Its length is at least one; when no script and no arguments +thereafter are turned into a list of strings and assigned to the ``argv`` +variable in the ``sys`` module. You can access this list by executing ``import +sys``. The length of the list is at least one; when no script and no arguments are given, ``sys.argv[0]`` is an empty string. When the script name is given as ``'-'`` (meaning standard input), ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-'``. When :option:`-c` *command* is used, ``sys.argv[0]`` is set to ``'-c'``. When |