Thanks. That does work for flags the interpreter knows, but python doesn't
understand --some_flag (I mean literally that flag!).

It turns out I meant:

python test.py --some_flag=True.

It looks like that is not currently possible.

John

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On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:11 PM, Yasushi SHOJI <yasushi.shoji@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 8:47 AM, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
> wrote:
> > Is it possible to set command line flags for an executable in src
> blocks? I
> > was thinking of something like this
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC python :flags --some_flag=True :tangle test.py
> > import app
> >
> > print(app.FLAGS.some_flag) # -> True
> > #+END_SRC
>
> ob-python doesn't suport :flags nor :cmdline, but you can set interpreter
> with :python. So, you can do
>
> #+begin_src python :python "python --some_flag=True"
>
> to pass parameter to the interpreter.
> --
>            yashi
>