Special Agent commandline to libexec\script is passed with options in single quotes

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Hi all,

i am struggling a bit, where my agent’s libexec script is receiving parameters in single quotes.
This breaks argparse’s evaluation of the parameters provided to the script.

I am offering the script a parameter --exclude=something,otherthing
When i do that everything works fine ( both direct and from agent-call).

However, when i try --exclude=something, otherthing ( observe space after comma!)
which i compensated for in my script with:

def parse_exclude_list(value):
    # Split by comma, strip whitespace, remove empty items
    return [item.strip() for item in value.split(',') if item.strip()]

And then using that in argparse:

parser.add_argument('--exclude', type=parse_exclude_list, help='Excluded section(s) comma separated (optional)')

With above, when calling the script from command-line works like a charm.

But when its called from CMK, it wraps single quotes around that part, not stripping the whitespaces.
Seen when running cmk -vvn Host:

'--exclude=something, otherthing'

So i’m looking for a way around/compensating for this in my code.
(apart from “dont use spaces in the argument :upside_down_face:”

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