Question

What is the length of sys.argv?

(a) number of arguments

(b) number of arguments + 1

(c) number of arguments – 1

(d) none of the mentioned

The question was asked in an online quiz.

Question is from Argument Parsing 1 in division Argument Passing, Global vs Local Variables, Shallow copy vs Deep copy and Recursion of Python

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) number of arguments + 1

Explanation: The first argument is the name of the program itself. Therefore the length of sys.argv is one more than the number arguments.