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Co-authored-by: Dan Adriaansen <[email protected]>
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JohnHalleyGotway and DanielAdriaansen authored Jan 30, 2025
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The file list elements can be separated by spaces, tabs, or newlines, but not commas. Users are encouraged to add the optional **file_list** keyword as the first element of each list to clearly identify it as such. When **file_list** is the first item, no validation of the file existence is performed. When **file_list** is not present, MET checks whether each input file actually exists on the file system and errors out if it encounters too many missing input files.

While this validation logic is useful for standard input file formats, it can cause problems when providing a list of arguments for a Python embedding script since those arguments may not actually be the names of files on the file system. Please see the description of :ref:`MET_PYTHON_INPUT_ARG <met-python-input-arg>` for additional details.
While validating file existence is useful for standard input file formats, it can cause problems when providing a list of arguments for a Python embedding script since a **file_list** used for Python embedding can contain optional command line arguments in addition to file names on each line. Please see the description of :ref:`MET_PYTHON_INPUT_ARG <met-python-input-arg>` for additional details.

Here is an example ASCII file list for three input files, each listed on a separate line:

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