Hi Prefect, We’re still in our journey to evaluate prefect, one question that comes to mind How do we run a flow that takes input parameters ? I mean without deploying to a agent, simply by running it with the command line

Hi, I'll comment for being noticed if there are other methods but I'm mainly using argparse to receive my params

you could use argparse as mentioned by nicolas above, and you can always use

sys.argv

like:

import sys
from prefect import flow, get_run_logger, task

@task
def double(x: int) -> int:
    return x * 2

@flow
def my_flow(my_int: int):
    logger = get_run_logger()
    result = double(my_int)
    <http://logger.info|logger.info>(f"Result: {result}")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    my_int_arg = sys.argv[-1]
    
    my_flow(my_int=my_int_arg)

❯ python clitriggeredflow.py 4
15:39:02.542 | INFO    | prefect.engine - Created flow run 'uppish-dormouse' for flow 'my-flow'
15:39:03.568 | INFO    | Flow run 'uppish-dormouse' - Created task run 'double-718afc09-0' for task 'double'
15:39:03.570 | INFO    | Flow run 'uppish-dormouse' - Executing 'double-718afc09-0' immediately...
15:39:03.900 | INFO    | Task run 'double-718afc09-0' - Finished in state Completed()
15:39:03.900 | INFO    | Flow run 'uppish-dormouse' - Result: 8
15:39:03.994 | INFO    | Flow run 'uppish-dormouse' - Finished in state Completed('All states completed.')

that’s acceptable as a workaround, but prefect should seriously consider integrating a proper library with named arguments like

--foo=bar --foo

Don’t want to seems like asking for too much, but it’s a serious drawback if developers are not able to run their scripts locally with proper input parameters

@Florian Giroud thanks for the feedback! you're welcome to make feature requests here

Well, @Florian Giroud I like using argparse to do just what you say. its the clean way to pass arguments to your application. Philosophically, I dont want to interact with Prefect apis except in this domain of workflow management. We arent writing Prefect code, its just a library for our python code.