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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:07:29 -0400
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On 3/13/2012 5:41 AM, Szabo, Patrick (LNG-VIE) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wrote the following Script which I want to run from the open with
> contextmenu in Windows.

> Now the script runs fine but I don=E2=80=99t get all arguments from sys=
=2Eargv.
>
> No mather how many files I mark in the explorer I only get one as an
> argument.

The right-click contextmenu is not a command line. It is more like a=20
list of no-arg* methods to call on the selected file.

* or rather, one input arg, with others having default values set when=20
the menu entry is created. Sometimes a second input arg is handled, at=20
least in effect, with a second submenu, but I am not familiar with how=20
those are done in Windows.

--=20
Terry Jan Reedy