not possible to set build_tag from cli

[mryzhov]

When I tried to set the build_tag from command line it fails with the following error:

pip wheel -v --no-deps --config-settings=override=wheel.build_tag="555"

py_build_cmake.common.FormattedErrorMessage:

      ❌ Error in user configuration:

              Type of <cli:1>/wheel/build_tag should be <class 'str'>, not <class 'int'>

         Please run `py-build-cmake config format` or see https://tttapa.github.io/py-build-cmake/reference/config.html for help.

error: subprocess-exited-with-error

Unfortunately I could not find the workaround for that issue

[tttapa]

Your shell will strip out the quotes, which is why the argument is interpreted as an integer instead of a string. To get around this, you can add a second pair of quotes: --config-settings=override=wheel.build_tag="'555'".

This is indeed confusing though, I'll look into improving the handling of integer arguments for the next release. For config files, having some type safety may be preferable, but for command line arguments, treating everything as a string may be more natural.

[mryzhov]

Thank you for the respond, unfortunately "'555'" will cause incorrect wheel name:
Created wheel for openvino-tokenizers: filename=openvino_tokenizers-2025.2.0.0-'777'-py3-none-linux_x86_64.whl

I did manage to work around that using the following command string:
--config-settings=override='wheel.build_tag="777"'
or
--config-settings=override="wheel.build_tag=\"777\""

But it causes the problems when the command line generated in python script (CI usage case), so the fix will really help :)