Argparse

Code

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='description of code')
parser.add_argument('--x', type=int, default = 1, help="This is the first number")
parser.add_argument('--y', type=int, help="This is the second number")
 
args = parser.parse_args()
x = args.x
y = args.y

Call

python program.py --x 1 --y 2