PyCharm “Run configuration” asking for “script parameters”

Question

While writing an application parsing command line arguments I would like to run it with various parameters.

I don\'t want to create a Run Configuration for ever

Answer 1

Although yole's answer is the de facto way to be prompted for thw arguments before running a program, it is slightly annoying because:

• the dialog is visually overwhelming and cluttered instead of focused on what you want to do;
• you have to tab to reach the arguments field if you want to use the keyboard exclusively (and why not?);

Nothing you could do about that. (Except maybe file a ticket. Have you done that?)

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I'm just adding what I used to do before I knew about Googled for this option for the sake of completeness (obvously, this is a hack in the least glamorous sense of the term). But it did suit my workflow as I often only had discrete lines to test with, and didn't switch that often.

1. Create a new configuration set to the same file, but with a special 'magic' parameter;
2. Add code to your script to check if the magic is there;
3. Use a string variable instead of sys.argv (pass it through lambda args: [__name__] + args.split() to reduce the boilerplate);
4. ???
5. Profit;