Aws-cli: aws ssm python error

[mbreedveld]

When I try to get a ssm parameter I get a python error.
The specific parameter is stored via Cloudformation as string type parameter, in the same template are 8 other ssm parameters created. Those others I can fetch without any problem.

Command:
aws ssm get-parameters -—names="BeanstalkdEnvironmentProduction" -—region=eu-west-1 —-output=text

Error:
/usr/lib64/python2.7/argparse.py:2127: UnicodeWarning: Unicode equal comparison failed to convert both arguments to Unicode - interpreting them as being unequal if option_string == short_option_prefix: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/aws", line 27, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/aws", line 23, in main return awscli.clidriver.main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 56, in main return driver.main() File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/clidriver.py", line 192, in main parsed_args, remaining = parser.parse_known_args(args) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/awscli/argparser.py", line 91, in parse_known_args parsed, remaining = super(CLIArgParser, self).parse_known_args(args, namespace) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/argparse.py", line 1720, in parse_known_args namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/argparse.py", line 1761, in _parse_known_args option_tuple = self._parse_optional(arg_string) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/argparse.py", line 2069, in _parse_optional option_tuples = self._get_option_tuples(arg_string) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/argparse.py", line 2131, in _get_option_tuples elif option_string.startswith(option_prefix): UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 1: ordinal not in range(128)

[stealthycoin]

Looks like some of your dashes are box-drawing characters from unicode not dashes. Just retype your -- to be actual dashes.

Look at it without code blocks, you can see the extra long ones are incorrect characters:
aws ssm get-parameters -—names="BeanstalkdEnvironmentProduction" -—region=eu-west-1 —-output=text

[mbreedveld]

Totally not seeing that one.
Thanks!

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