Correct way to pass `:args` for debugpy

[haditim]

Hello and thanks a lot for the awesome package. I am trying to debug a (python) streamlit app with debugpy. The launch.json way is detailed in here https://slashgordon.github.io/post/debug_streamlit_in_vscode/. I do something similar, namely:

  (add-to-list 'dape-configs
               '(streamlit
                 modes (python-ts-mode python-mode)
                 command "python3"
                 command-args ("-m" "debugpy.adapter")
                 :type "executable"
                 :request "launch"
                 :module "streamlit"
                 :cwd dape-cwd-fn
                 :args ("run" "/home/test/streamlit_test.py")
                 ))

But I get the error Wrong type argument: symbolp, "run". Any idea what I do wrong? Doing :args("run" "/home/test/streamlit_test.py")` also does not help. Any idea what I do wrong?

Thanks again

[svaante]

Hi, thanks for your ticket.

TLDR: Should be :args ["run" "/home/test/streamlit_test.py"]

Made me realize that allowing lists as values for modes and command-args was stupid.

How it works is that keywords (symbols that start with :) follows other rules then symbols. Keywords are serialized to json before being sent to the adapter and so :args are being interpreted as an object. But object keys needs to be keywords so that why you are getting the error, added better errors atleast to mitigate the problem.

[haditim]

Thanks a lot for the reply. It works perfectly. I ended up using :args ["run" dape-find-file-buffer-default] to make it interactive.