sys.argv with quoted strings as option argument

[Satya Arjunan]

It is not python's error. It is because another sh script which I 
envoked to call the python script removed the quotes, like this:

satya at kona printargs $ ls -al
total 16
drwxr-xr-x    2 satya    users        4096 Dec 12 00:51 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 satya    users        4096 Dec 12 00:48 ..
-rwxr-xr-x    1 satya    users          53 Dec 12 09:46 printargs.py
-rwxr-xr-x    1 satya    users          58 Dec 12 09:47 sh-python

satya at kona printargs $ cat printargs.py
#!/usr/bin/env ./sh-python
import sys
print sys.argv

satya at kona printargs $ cat sh-python
#!/bin/sh
echo /usr/bin/python $*
exec /usr/bin/python $*

satya at kona printargs $ ./printargs.py --libdir="/usr/lib /usr/local/lib"
/usr/bin/python ./printargs.py --libdir=/usr/lib /usr/local/lib
['./printargs.py', '--libdir=/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib']


Thanks for your responses. It helped me to find out the problem.

satya



Fredrik Lundh wrote:

>Satya Arjunan wrote:
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>>I would like to send an option argument which is a quoted string with
>>whitespaces to a python program. For example:
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>>$ ./myprogram.py --includedir="/usr/include /usr/local/include"
>>--libdir="/usr/lib /usr/local/lib"
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>>However, sys.argv breaks the arguments whenever it encounter spaces,
>>like this:
>>['./myprogram.py', '--includedir=/usr/include', '/usr/local/include',
>>'--libdir=/usr/lib', '/usr/local/lib']
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>>So I can't seem to use getopt or optik to process such cases. Is there a
>>good way where I can preserve such option arguments with whitespaces?
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>this works just fine on all platforms I have easy access to (including
>windows).  what platform are you using?  does putting the *entire*
>option inside the quotes ("--includedir=...") help?
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Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan
Institute for Advanced Biosciences
Keio University
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