Python accept predefined input along with any input inside of a user input and save as variable-CodePudding

So I have a "terminal" like program written in python and in this program I need to accept "mkdir" and another input and save the input after mkdir as a variable. It would work how sys.argv works when executing a python program but this would have to work from inside the program and I have no idea how to make this work. Also, sorry for the amount of times I said "input" in the title, I wasn't sure how to ask this question.

user = 'user'
def cmd1():
    cmd = input(user   '#')
    while True:
        if cmd == 'mkdir '   sys.argv[1]:   #trying to accept second input here
            print('sys.argv[1]')
            break
        else:
            print('Input not valid')
            break

CodePudding user response：

Are you just trying to accept arguments that are entered after mkdir? If so, you could just split the string with whitespace and get any words after mkdir.

cmd = input(user   '#')
cmd_split = cmd.split(' ')

if cmd_split[0] == 'mkdir':
    args = cmd_split[1:]

CodePudding user response：

It looks like you're trying to tokenize your cmd. That is, you want to split out the parts of the input by their spaces.

cmd = input(user   '#')
parts = cmd.split()

# get the first part as the instruction
instruction = parts[0]

# get everything else as the args
args = parts[1:]