Run python script with some of the argument that are optional

Question

I have gone through the sys documentation, however there is something that is still unclear to me. I have looked for some similar question on stackoverflow, but I h

Answer 1

Other than using argparse (which I do recommend), this can be solved by slicing and expanding:

    sys.exit(example(*sys.argv[1:7]))

The slice will only contain elements that actually exist, even if there aren't enough to fulfill the size of slice requested.