Passing multiple files with asterisk to python shell in Windows

Question

I\'m going through Google\'s Python exercises and I need to be able to do this from the command line:

python babynames.py --summaryfile baby*.html
         


        

Answer 1

Using argparse:

import argparse
parser=argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(dest='wildcard',nargs='+')

print(parser.parse_args().wildcard)