Re: [HTCondor-users] Extra quotes in ClassAd attribute name

[Todd L Miller <tlmiller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> These are attributes to add to the condor submit file:
> request_cpus = 1
> +queue = "batch"
> +WantIOProxy = true

	A leading '+' in the condor submit file means, and is internally 
translated to, 'MY.'.  It's just telling condor_submit that you're naming 
an attribute in the job ad, rather than issuing a command in the submit 
language.  So for '+queue' and '+WantIOProxy', the actual names in the 
job ClassAd are 'queue' and 'WantIOProxy', respectively.  'request_cpus' 
is a command, and has side-effects, but is generally recorded as 
'RequestCPUs'.

> Is it there a standard way so that I could encode the plus so that the 
> receiver reading the classad can get back to the original lines for the 
> submit file?

	No, and to my understanding, you can't generally recover the 
original submit file from the job ClassAd anyways.  I'm not sure what 
you're trying to accomplish, or where you're adding these attributes or to 
which ad(s), but if you really want the original submit file, it would 
probably be easier just to embed the entire submit file in a single 
attribute; the Python bindings have a method that returns a properly 
ClassAd-quoted string to help with arbitrary embeddings like this.

- ToddM