Passing dictionary arguments through command line and accessing them in a python script
JSON - or JavaScript Object Representation is one of the way of taking Python objects and converting them into a string-like representation, suitable for passing around to multiple languages.
python saver.py '{"names": ["J.J.", "April"], "years": [25, 29]}'In your python script, do this:
import jsondata=json.loads(argv[1])This will give you back a dictionary representing the data you wanted to pass in.
You can then apply to the function as you intended.
fun(data['name'], data['key'])Edit:You also need to consider the parsing issue
E.g.
if you run print sys.argv[1] you probably get '{favorited: which the json module cannot decode into a json object.
try escaping your inner quotes so it is passed as 1 argument like so:
"{"\""favorited"\"": false, "\""contributors"\"": null}"