Python sys.argv to remove single quotes (')

I need to pass an argument to trial_id as follow: trial_id [123, 412, 351, 236]
For some reason, after argument is passed, single quotes are added and breaks my code.

Python command is python3 pull_t3.py 123,412,351,236

trial_ids = [sys.argv[1]]
print("trial_id", trial_ids)

prints

trial_id ['123,412,351,236']

How can I remove single quotes (')? I would prefer the python sys argument does not change. Rater something in the code.

When you run the file with the arguments like the way you just did, you have only passed in one argument. A single string. And that's what the output gives back to you.

python3 pull_t3.py 123,412,351,236

So, if you want to pass in multiple arguments, you separate each argument with a whitespace, and not a comma. Like so:

python3 pull_t3.py 123 412 351 236

Now, the correction you'll have to make in your script for that is this:
Now that you're passing in multiple arguments, they'll be accessible at argv[1], argv[2]... etc. So you can just slice the list like so:

trial_ids = sys.argv[1:]

That takes every argument you run the file with.

Your output will now look something like this:

trial_id ['123', '412', '351', '236']

You now have each argument as a separate String. You can then easily convert all elements in the list to ints with a list comprehension like this:

trial_ids = [int(i) for i in trial_ids]

Hope that resolves your issue