Python script file executions adds extra string onto end of parameters

[SeanStanway-Octopus]

Severity

1 customer reported, can recreate in latest consistently

Version

2024.1.3649

Latest Version

None

What happened?

Setting up a script step to use a package with script parameters causes a failure if the script is expecting certain arguments. This is due to an extra string (e.g. 232F3D7C708D7E68559E227B5B28EE47) being appended to the end of the file run.

Reproduction

1. Create a package that contains a python file with the following: import sys print (sys.argv[1:]);
2. Create a process with a Run a Script step
3. Reference the created package above and put in a string for the script parameters (e.g. "testing").
4. Run the deployment and observe there is an extra string being added onto the arguments.

Error and Stacktrace

Extracting package 'C:\Octopus\Tentacle\Files\pythonscript@S0.0.3@65B8681A75B8B54ABBCF7558084D8EC9.zip' to 'C:\Octopus\Tentacle\Work\ServerTasks-2579610-3d465d4d-b758-4199-96a1-aff47ed2722a'
Extracting package 'C:\Octopus\Tentacle\Files\pythonscript@S0.0.3@65B8681A75B8B54ABBCF7558084D8EC9.zip' to 'C:\Octopus\Tentacle\Work\ServerTasks-2579610-3d465d4d-b758-4199-96a1-aff47ed2722a\pythonscript'
['test', '232F3D7C708D7E68559E227B5B28EE47']

More Information

This could be a string similar to when we create worker folders, something unique to avoid overwrites, but it's being included in the wrong position.

Workaround

No current known workaround

[michelle-luana]

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