just ran into this on 2.2, we were trying to do a

pants run path/to/binary -- binary’s arguments

. Now the binary’s arguments happened to have brackets

[]

in them and pants was aborting with:

File "/Users/nate/.cache/pants/setup/bootstrap-Darwin-x86_64/2.2.0_py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pants/util/eval.py", line 47, in parse_expression
    raise raise_type(
pants.option.errors.ParseError: The value cannot be evaluated as a literal expression: SyntaxError('unexpected EOF while parsing', ('<string>', 1, 8, '[test] quoting'))
Given raw value:
1: [test] quoting

In v1 we made heavy use of pants run with

--

expecting pants to stop processing argv after that. I tried looking at

--run-args

but it seems that the brackets still cause it to bail.

That sounds like a good straight up bug. Do you mind filing an issue?

will do

Thanks for reporting. I followed up on the ticket.

yah i’ll try to come up with a more complete example

Gotcha there Nate, the Pants repo itself had a good example.

yah i replied because i think the workaround only works if the brackets aren’t the start of argv

Sorry for the trouble, and thanks for the bug report! We'll get a fix out soon

this is now bound for 2.2.x: https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/pull/11661