Visual Studio Code: How debug Python script with arguments
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00:00 Visual Studio Code: How Debug Python Script With Arguments
00:42 Accepted Answer Score 328
01:16 Answer 2 Score 130
01:38 Answer 3 Score 40
02:00 Answer 4 Score 16
02:22 Answer 5 Score 10
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ACCEPTED ANSWER
Score 336
I think the --City and Auckland are used as a single argument. Maybe try separating them like so...
Single argument
"args": ["--city","Auckland"]
Multiple arguments and multiple values
Such as:
--key1 value1 value2 --key2 value3 value4
Just put them into the args list one by one in sequence:
"args": ["--key1", "value1", "value2", "--key2", "value3", "value4"]
ANSWER 2
Score 131
I also noticed that if you run the script by clicking on the debug button that looks like this
, then the arguments are not passed. However, using Run -> Start Debugging (or its shortcut F5) passed the arguments successfully.
ANSWER 3
Score 15
--key1 value1 value2 --key2 value3 value4
can be passed as
"args": ["--key1=value1", "value2", "--key2=value3", "value4"]
(Combining the two answers by Pawan Kumar and Chunde Huang.)
ANSWER 4
Score 11
Nobody has mentioned this yet, so I thought I'd offer a suggestion that may save you some minutes and certainly some sanity. I set up my launch.json file with an args array, but I couldn't get my args to show up in the terminal when I ran the debugger.
All I had to do was quit and restart VS Code for some reason. Then it worked like a champ.