specifying a list as a command line argument in python

Question

I am using getopt to process a command line optional argument, which should accept a list. Something like this:

foo.py --my_list=[1, 2, 3, 4,5] 
         


        

Answer 1

Maybe you should just enclose the argument in quotes?

foo.py "--my_list=[1, 2, 3, 4,5]"

Otherwise every space will be treated as a separator for arguments.