Ability to add command line arguments for terminal or in interactive window

This is related to bug microsoft/vscode-python#11206 which is currently addressed with a workaround. and specifically this comment https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/11206#issuecomment-615393463

To summarize here: Currently, using argparse fails (crashes) in the Interactive Window. A workaround is to run sys.argv = [''].

It would be helpful if we could provide command line arguments which are taken into account when running in the terminal, debugging and in the interactive window. These should be stored per file, not per project, since a single project could have multiple files which are run, each with different arguments.

test code:

import argparse
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('--test', default='Hello')
args = parser.parse_args()
print(vars(args))

[melsophos]

In-between, I have a question on the workaround: is there any way to say that sys.argv = [''] must be executed only in the interactive window, and not when the file is executed directly with python?

[DonJayamanne]

Closing this issue as there haven’t been enough upvotes on this feature request