the with_argparse() decorator was incorrectly using a parsed statemen…

…t object to search for the original function arguments. Switched to search for the original statement value instead

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+## 1.3.7 (August 27, 2020)
+* Bug Fixes
+    * Fixes an issue introduced in 1.3.0 with processing command strings containing terminator/separator 
+      character(s) that are manually passed to a command that uses argparse.
+
 ## 1.3.6 (August 27, 2020)
 * Breaking changes
     * The functions cmd2 adds to Namespaces (`get_statement()` and `get_handler()`) are now 

cmd2/decorators.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def cat_decorator(func):
     return cat_decorator
 
 ##########################
-# The _parse_positionals and _swap_args decorators allow for additional positional args to be preserved
+# The _parse_positionals and _arg_swap functions allow for additional positional args to be preserved
 # in cmd2 command functions/callables. As long as the 2-ple of arguments we expect to be there can be
 # found we can swap out the statement with each decorator's specific parameters
 ##########################
@@ -276,9 +276,9 @@ def cmd_wrapper(*args: Any, **kwargs: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[bool]:
             :return: return value of command function
             :raises: Cmd2ArgparseError if argparse has error parsing command line
             """
-            cmd2_app, statement = _parse_positionals(args)
+            cmd2_app, statement_arg = _parse_positionals(args)
             statement, parsed_arglist = cmd2_app.statement_parser.get_command_arg_list(command_name,
-                                                                                       statement,
+                                                                                       statement_arg,
                                                                                        preserve_quotes)
 
             if ns_provider is None:
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ def cmd_wrapper(*args: Any, **kwargs: Dict[str, Any]) -> Optional[bool]:
                 if hasattr(ns, constants.NS_ATTR_SUBCMD_HANDLER):
                     delattr(ns, constants.NS_ATTR_SUBCMD_HANDLER)
 
-                args_list = _arg_swap(args, statement, *new_args)
+                args_list = _arg_swap(args, statement_arg, *new_args)
                 return func(*args_list, **kwargs)
 
         # argparser defaults the program name to sys.argv[0], but we want it to be the name of our command

tests/test_cmd2.py

@@ -217,6 +217,23 @@ def test_shell_last_result(base_app):
     run_cmd(base_app, 'shell fake')
     assert base_app.last_result is not None
 
+
+def test_shell_manual_call(base_app):
+    # Verifies crash from Issue #986 doesn't happen
+    cmds = [
+        'echo "hi"',
+        'echo "there"',
+        'echo "cmd2!"'
+    ]
+    cmd = ';'.join(cmds)
+
+    base_app.do_shell(cmd)
+
+    cmd = '&&'.join(cmds)
+
+    base_app.do_shell(cmd)
+
+
 def test_base_py(base_app):
     # Make sure py can't edit Cmd.py_locals. It used to be that cmd2 was passing its py_locals
     # dictionary to the py environment instead of a shallow copy.