import sys def main(argv): if len(argv) != 2: sys.exit('Usage: simple_multi.py <a> <b>') a = int(sys.argv[1]) b = int(sys.argv[2]) print "The result of " + str(a) + " times " + str(b) + " is: " + str(a*b) if __name__ == "__main__": main(sys.argv[1:])