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Visual Studio Code – VS Code fails to run script which has quotes in its filename

I am trying to run a simple "Hello World" script which is named print("hello world!").py by pressing the "play" button in the top-right of the VS Code window.

I’m using Python 3.13.0, macOS 12.6.1 and VS Code 1.94.

The VS Code terminal prints:

dafyddpowell@Dafydds-MBP ~ % cd "/Volumes/SAMSUNG/Python projects"  
dafyddpowell@Dafydds-MBP Python projects % /usr/bin/python3 "/Volumes/SAMSUNG/Python projects/print("Hello world!").py"  
zsh: parse error near `)'  
dafyddpowell@Dafydds-MBP Python projects % 

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What is wrong?

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  1. 0

    Use a file name something like "print_hello_world.py".

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  2. 0

    It seems like VSCode isn’t escaping the file name that contains special characters.

    The simplest way around this would be to use a filename that doesn’t have any special characters like hello_world.py.

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  3. 0

    If the underlying shell is bash (or equivalent in terms of how the command line is interpreted) then:

    /usr/bin/python3 '/Volumes/SAMSUNG/Python projects/print("Hello world!").py'

    Whilst the filename is legal, it’s not very sensible

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