Debug command line option

[NerdFever.com]

Apologies for the newbie question.

I'm trying to walk thru a directory tree that is passed on the command line (in Windows), for example:

c:>doit.py "C:\Users\dave\right here"

To debug that in Spyder, I did Run>Configuration... then put  "C:\Users\dave\right here" (including the quotes) into the "Command line options" box under General Settings.

If I do: 

A = sys.argv[2] 

B = 'C:\\Users\\dave\\right here'

os.walk(A)

os.walk(B)

Then only the os.walk(B) works.  That seems to be because

A contains "C:\Users\dave\right here" (including the quotes), and

B contains C:\Users\dave\right here

Is there a straightforward way to get rid of the double quotes?

(I'm not sure why, but sys.argv[1] and sys.argv[3] both get populated with empty strings, too.)

BTW - if I leave out the double quotes, then I get:

sys.argv[1] == C:\Users\dave\right

and

sys.argv[2] = here

...so that doesn't work too well.  I seem to need the double quotes to avoid the whitespace break.

[anatoly techtonik]

Looks like a bug. It will be more useful if it is added to issue tracker.