az network vnet create command fails with an unexpected error "option values must be strings"

[pulyankote]

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Describe the bug

Even though the cli reports this error, the portal shows the vnet and subnet being created successfully

Command Name
az network vnet create

Errors:

The command failed with an unexpected error. Here is the traceback:
option values must be strings
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.48.1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/knack/cli.py", line 233, in invoke
    cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.48.1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azure/cli/core/commands/__init__.py", line 680, in execute
    self.cli_ctx.save_local_context(parsed_args, self.commands_loader.command_table[command].arguments,
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.48.1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azure/cli/core/__init__.py", line 154, in save_local_context
    self.local_context.set(lca.scopes, lca.name, value)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.48.1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azure/cli/core/local_context.py", line 116, in set
    self._local_context_file.set_value(scope.lower(), argument, value)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/azure-cli/2.48.1/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/knack/config.py", line 239, in set_value
    config.set(section, option, value)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.10/3.10.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/configparser.py", line 1205, in set
    self._validate_value_types(option=option, value=value)
  File "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/python@3.10/3.10.11/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/configparser.py", line 1190, in _validate_value_types
    raise TypeError("option values must be strings")
TypeError: option values must be strings

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az network vnet create --name {} --resource-group {} --address-prefixes {} --subnet-name {} --subnet-prefixes {}

Expected Behavior

Environment Summary

macOS-13.3.1-arm64-arm-64bit, Darwin 22.4.0
Python 3.10.11
Installer: HOMEBREW

azure-cli 2.48.1

Extensions:
init 0.1.0
interactive 0.4.6

Dependencies:
msal 1.20.0
azure-mgmt-resource 22.0.0

Additional Context

[yonzhan]

Thank you for opening this issue, we will look into it.

[jiasli]

This seems to be related to Local Context we are aiming to drop: #24726

[necusjz]

Please take az config param-persist off as a workaround.