From 33c5bd874b0294b9a0828bd4cfb98dda4ed7f7dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: greerdv <greerdv@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 18:19:28 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix handling of multiple arguments running python scripts
 from console

---
 .../EditorPythonBindings/Code/Source/PythonSystemComponent.cpp | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Gems/EditorPythonBindings/Code/Source/PythonSystemComponent.cpp b/Gems/EditorPythonBindings/Code/Source/PythonSystemComponent.cpp
index 38660fce02..00dbca12c9 100644
--- a/Gems/EditorPythonBindings/Code/Source/PythonSystemComponent.cpp
+++ b/Gems/EditorPythonBindings/Code/Source/PythonSystemComponent.cpp
@@ -718,7 +718,8 @@ namespace EditorPythonBindings
 
             for (int arg = 0; arg < args.size(); arg++)
             {
-                argv[arg + 1] = Py_DecodeLocale(args[arg].data(), nullptr);
+                AZStd::string argString(args[arg]);
+                argv[arg + 1] = Py_DecodeLocale(argString.c_str(), nullptr);
             }
             // Tell Python the command-line args.
             // Note that this has a side effect of adding the script's path to the set of directories checked for "import" commands.