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Customer reported this issue for PowerShell 7.3.0 https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/18529 The problem is on line 109 in gcloud.ps1. Basically, on line 109 in gcloud.ps1:

$run_args_array += $cloudsdk_python_args.split(' ')

this line should be changed to:

$run_args_array += $cloudsdk_python_args.split(' ', [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

so that empty entries are not included. What happened previously is that the split resulted in empt entries, and these were passed to python.exe. However, due to a bug in how parameters are passed to native commands, empty strings would be silently removed. The fix in PowerShell 7.3.0 is to preserve empty args so you can do something like:

git commit -m ''

where you explicitly pass an empty string as a value to a parameter. With that change, empty args now get passed to python.exe which causes it to fail. The change here removes empty args that are not meaningful and will work across all versions of PowerShell (including Windows PowerShell 5.1).