Give an argument to an script run from the python console of salome

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Hello,
how can I give an argument to a script that I want to run in salome (python interface inside salome GUI)?
when I run a script from the gui in the console is runned the following command:

exec(compile(open('/pathToScript/script.py', 'rb').read(), '/pathToScript/script.py', 'exec'))

but lets say I want to give a path to it, how can I achieve this?

form the terminal using salome, it would be something like this

salome -t /pathToScript/script.py arg0

and then in the script itself I would have:

import sys
try:
     path=sys.arg[0]
except:
     path='/home'

thanks in advance

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If you want to pass arguments to a script you can do this:
salome myscript.py args:arg0,arg1

Then in the script sys.argv[0] is the name of the script and sys.argv[1:] the rest of the arguments.
See the example attached to create a block with 3 parameters:

salome block.py args:20,50,30

block.py (1010 Octets)

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Hello fred,
giving arguments to a script from the terminal wasn’t the issue (I excuse myself if I wasn’t clear enough I my original post).
what I am looking to do is be able to pass arguments when in the GUI we do file/load script…

this will run in the salome python console the following function:
exec(compile(open('/pathToScript/script.py', 'rb').read(), '/pathToScript/script.py', 'exec'))
I wanted to be able to modify this line to be able to give arguments to the script.py

I know that I can give them when running in the terminal (thanks to one of your previous posts actually!) but it is not what I am looking for right now. as I have a script that I select an object in the interface, and want to run it so it export some parts of it and want to give as input the path to where to export.

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From the Python Console of SALOME you can pass the arguments like this:
exec(open(“C:\SALOME-9.12.0\block.py”, “rb”).read(), args=(“20”,“30”,“40”))

But if you need to retrieve the selection then it is different.
You probably should try to create a plugin instead and you will be able to create a small GUI to get the needed parameters.

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thanks for your reply,
for retrive the selection is quite easy (in case you might need it):

import salome
obj0 = salome.IDToObject(salome.sg.getSelected(0))

regards

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Thanks :slight_smile: to complete this work for GEOM & SMESH