Passing Bash array to Python script

Question

I am having problem in sending bash array problem_list to python script update_contest.py. Here is my code :

bash file :

echo $problems declare -a problem_list for i in $problems; do problem_list+=($i) done echo ${problem_list[@]} python3 update_contest.py $id ${problem_list[@]} 

python file:

id = (sys.argv)[1] problem_list = (sys.argv)[2] print(problem_list) 

output in terminal :

A B C D E A B C D E A 

As can be seen, only A is passed as argument in problem_list.

Answer 1

You are indexing the list of arguments with 2, so only returning its second element, which is the first argument.

Replace this line problem_list = (sys.argv)[2] with problem_list = sys.argv[2:-1].

https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.html