Hello awesome people!! So I'm currently using prefect to orchestrate an ETL pipeline for a job take-home task and I was wondering if there's ANY way, I mean ANY way to make prefect work with command line arguments 😭😭

Define 'make it work' there is a cli for most things https://docs.prefect.io/tutorials/deployments/#deployment-creation-with-the-prefect-cli

I mean being able to parse command line arguments with argparse for example, at the

python myFlow.py

call

Hi @Kolapo Obajuluwa if you're wanting to run a flow locally, simplest way would just be to use

sys.argv

like (or you could use argparse similarly)

@flow(log_prints=True)
def my_flow(arg):
   print(arg)

if __name__ == "__main__":
   my_flow(sys.argv[1])

and you could invoke that like

python my_flow_file.py "hello world"

and if you wanted to run a deployment via CLI you could do

prefect deployment run myflow/mydeployment --params '{"arg": "hello world"}'

I just realised the problem was more my OOP than prefect

ha! no need, all questions are welcome here 🙂 feel free to ask anything else, anytime!