If you want to directly import the argv variable into your program (to avoid typing thesys. everytime for it), then you can use thefrom sys import argv statement. If you want to import all the names used in thesys module, then you can use thefrom sys import * statement. This works for any module. In general, avoid using thefrom..import statement and use theimport statement instead since your program will be much more readable and will avoid any name clashes that way.