python - How to escape spaces in Bash command line arguments -

does bash support escaping spaces in command line arguments?

i have simple python script using argparse arguments passed bash, when call like:

myscript.py --name="some text spaces" 

i result like:

args = ['text', 'with' spaces'] kwargs = {'name': 'some'} 

i though bash support spaces "\" trying

myscript.py --name="some\ text\ with\ spaces" 

results in same thing.

am misusing bash, or problem have deal on python's side?

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running

myscript.py --name="some text spaces" 

...directly command line works perfectly, resulting in sys.argv array of ['myscript.py', '--name=some text spaces']. behavior describe consistent this:

cmd='myscript.py --name="some text spaces"' $cmd 

...which result in sys.argv array of ['myscript.py', '--name="some', 'text', 'with', 'spaces"'].

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don't that, ever. either use array (typically appropriate if need build argument line conditionally):

cmd=( myscript.py --name="some text spaces" ) "${cmd[@]}" 

...or function (typically appropriate choice in other cases):

myscript() { myscript.py --name="some text spaces" "$@"; } myscript