title: Passing arguments to Python from Shell Script
body: <p>I wrote a small shell script that looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cd models/syntaxnet
  var1=$(jq --raw-output '.["avl_text"]' | syntaxnet/demo.sh)
  echo $var1
  python /home/sree/python_code1.py $var1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My <code>python_code1.py</code> looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import sys
  
  data = sys.argv[1]
  print "In python code"
  print data
  print type(data)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, the output of echo $var1 in my shell script is exactly what I wanted to see:</p>
  
  <p><code>1 Check _ VERB VB _ 0 ROOT _ _ 2 out _ PRT RP _ 1 prt _ _ 3 this _ DET DT _ 4 det _ _ 4 video _ NOUN NN _ 1 dobj _ _ 5 about _ ADP IN _ 4 prep _ _ 6 Northwest _ NOUN NNP _ 7 nn _ _ 7 Arkansas _ NOUN NNP _ 5 pobj _ _ 8 - _ . , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 https _ X ADD _ 7 appos _ _</code></p>
  
  <p>But the output of <code>print data</code> in the python code is just <code>1</code>. i.e. the first letter of the argument.</p>
  
  <p>Why is this happening? I want to pass the entire string to the python code.</p>