I'm trying to run an app that takes command line arguments and it seems to be splitting the arguments based on spaces, even when quoted.

./pants run projects/executable:pex_binary -- --arg1 "many words separated"

I'm using argparse, and it blows up because it's not expecting an argument "words separated". Looking at sys.argv, they're all split up. This doesn't happen when I invoke the pex file directly. argparse's destination "arg1" has a value of "many words separated". Workaround when using pants is to escape all the spaces.

does this still happen when using a single quote

'

instead of

"

?

yuck. sorry for the trouble there.

2.6.0

sorry for the trouble. will get a patch out for that.

Thanks for looking into it! Could you just give a shout out here when it's released?

this is fixed here: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/12547 … assuming there aren’t any red flags, i’ll get that cherry-picked into 2.5.x/2.6.x

(Wrong chris)

Thanks for the heads-up! Will be testing the fix in 2.6 out in the next few days.