Parsing {ALERT.MESSAGE} when used as a parameter in a media type

[jonpangburn]

I have a python script defined in a media type and am using the {ALERT.MESSAGE} macro to pass arguments for the script.

When this is triggered in zabbix it sends the entire string of arguments as one argument to the script.

Contents of message are:
-H "{HOST.NAME}" -a "{HOST.IP}" -n "{TRIGGER.STATUS}" -o "{ITEM.NAME} {ITEM.VALUE}" -T "{TRIGGER.SEVERITY}" -L "{EVENT.ID}"

The script doesn't see this as delimited arguments, rather one argument for -H

The python script is using import sys to import the arguments.

My python is novice at best.

Thanks in advance