hcl2.load() reading list as string

[Anirudh Gangwal]

Strings are being read as List of strings. Similar to an older issue - but updating library to latest version didn't help. Details below.

python-hcl2: Version 4.0.0
lark-parser: Version 0.10.1

# terraform.tfvars file
environment = "dev"
aws_region   = "eu-west-2"

# Loading hcl file with Python
with open(config_to_import, "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
    content = hcl2.load(file)
logger.info("TF vars read: %s", json.dumps(content, indent=4))

Output:

INFO: [***] TF vars read: {
    "environment": [
        "dev"
    ],
    "aws_region": [
        "eu-west-2"
    ]
}

Expected output:

INFO: [***] TF vars read: {
    "environment": "dev",
    "aws_region": "eu-west-2"
}

[George Torianik]

For me v4.2.0 works. Please, try to upgrade.

$ git describe --abbrev=0 --tags
v4.2.0
$ pip freeze | grep "lark"
lark==1.1.5
lark-parser==0.10.1
$ cat > terraform.tfvars << EOF
environment = "dev"
aws_region   = "eu-west-2"
EOF
$ python3

>>> import hcl2
>>> with open("terraform.tfvars", "r", encoding="utf-8") as file:
...     hcl2.load(file)    
... 
{'environment': 'dev', 'aws_region': 'eu-west-2'}