passing python variables into shell commands as argv

[Giao]

Hi, I'd like to do the following things in python script

x = "file1"
y = "file2"

shell's commands x y

Is any one out there tell me how it get done.

Thanks
GIAO

[dpal]

I think I am understanding you correctly...
you want to use 2 command line arguments in your script?
If so you will need to:

import sys
#assign arbuments to variables foo and bar
foo = sys.argv[1]
bar = sys.argv[2]