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From: Sean Murphy <mhysnq1964@icloud.com>
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Subject: Strange behaviour with a for loop.
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2014 15:03:35 +1100
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Hello all.

This is a newly question. But I wish to understand why the below code is =
providing different results.

import os, sys


if len(sys.argv) > 2:
  filenames =3D sys.argv[1:]
else
  print ("no parameters provided\n")
  sys.edit()

for filename in filenames:
  print ("filename is: %s\n" %filename)

The above code will return results like:

filename is test.txt

If I modify the above script slightly as shown below, I get a completely =
different result.=20

if len(sys.argv) > 2:
  filenames =3D sys.argv[1]
else
  print ("no parameters provided\n")
  sys.exit()

for filename in filenames:
  print ("filename is:  %s\n" % filename)

The result is the filename is spelled out a character at a time. The bit =
I am missing is something to do with splicing or referencing in Python.

Why am I getting different results? In other languages I would have got =
the whole content of the element when using the index of the array =
(list).


Sean=20
filename is: t
filename=20