@ccc at the risk of going on about it,
if shortcusts didn't put a redunant arg on the args list
I wouldn't have to do anything.

@cvp Thanks for responding, it is encouraging that a thriving Pythonista community exists.
my desire is to have a Rossum approach to code so my scripts work on all my platforms

@ccc said:

sys.argv.pop() # does not seem too ugly

#more like

try:
    # from pythonista libraries
    import editor
    # fix for pythonista tools icons
    if sys.argv[-1] == editor.get_path():
        argv = sys.argv[1:-1]
    else:
        argv = sys.argv[1:]
except:
    argv = sys.argv[1:]

@cvp sys.argv[0] is allways the actual script

i have noticed similar behaviour definitely related to icloud sharing
jump out of pythonista and the icloud is hung as well

the actual calling script is in sys.argv[0]
the current editor can be obtained from editor.get_path()
so why does shortcut need to append the editor path to the args, this is redundant and not the same behaviour as from the command line cf stash
i use the args in the shortcut and have to do all sorts of ugly logic to remove the editor path

if you run the following as a custom shortcut

import sys, editor, console

console.clear()

print('\nwhy does the custom shortcut append the editor file path ?')
print(sys.argv)

print('\nwhen you can get the path from the editor library')
print(editor.get_path())

print('\nwhich is a more intuitive way to do it')

would be awesome if editorial supported ifiles integration, either "icloud drive" or "on 'my iphone"

then we could use WorkingCopy for git !

@Daniel.Dalsgaard

works better using python3
python2 is great but not perfect

@MartinPacker

Standards are meant to be broken, software darwinisim in action. :-)