Yeah, I would use argparse if I had to support something like that. To be honest, the extent of my command line parsing is almost always just this: try:

Yeah, I would use argparse if I had to support something like that. To be honest, the extent of my command line parsing is almost always just this: try: infile = sys.argv[1] outfile = sys.argv[2] except IndexError: print(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} <infile> <outfile>")