From a398aebb0a3014e4ea7681201bb6a896da69bd9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: darrenburns <darrenburns@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 13:56:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix textual run path bug on Windows (#899)

---
 src/textual/_import_app.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/textual/_import_app.py b/src/textual/_import_app.py
index 154fc7198..574b0fd83 100644
--- a/src/textual/_import_app.py
+++ b/src/textual/_import_app.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ def import_app(import_name: str) -> App:
     import importlib
     import sys
 
-    from textual.app import App
+    from textual.app import App, WINDOWS
 
-    import_name, *argv = shlex.split(import_name)
+    import_name, *argv = shlex.split(import_name, posix=not WINDOWS)
     lib, _colon, name = import_name.partition(":")
 
     if lib.endswith(".py"):