Allow quickstart code to run without arguments.

gorakhargosh · Mar 25, 2012 · fa7b6df · fa7b6df
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diff --git a/README b/README
@@ -18,9 +18,10 @@ as command-line arguments and logs events generated::
         logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
                             format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
                             datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
+        path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else '.'
         event_handler = LoggingEventHandler()
         observer = Observer()
-        observer.schedule(event_handler, path=sys.argv[1], recursive=True)
+        observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)
         observer.start()
         try:
             while True:

diff --git a/docs/source/quickstart.rst b/docs/source/quickstart.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ file system changes and simply log them to the console::
         logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
                             format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
                             datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
-        path = sys.argv[1]
+        path = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else '.'
         event_handler = LoggingEventHandler()
         observer = Observer()
         observer.schedule(event_handler, path, recursive=True)