Python: How to pass ARGV parameters to another script?

Question

I need to create a wrapper script that gets parameters from the shell and that passes all of them as they are, to another script.

In Perl, I would do:

system("/path/to/subprocess", @ARGV);

Is there a way to do the same thing in Python?

Answer 1

Call subprocess.call with sys.argv minus the first element, which is the name of your Python script.

import subprocess
import sys

subprocess.call(["/path/to/subprocess"] + sys.argv[1:])

Example with date as the subprocess:

$ python3 s.py
Tue Oct 21 09:25:00 CEST 2014
$ python3 s.py -R
Tue, 21 Oct 2014 09:25:01 +0200