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I am struggling a bit with a parameter.  It is being passed into my task at run time still a parameter.  When I try to pass it to something expecting a string it doesn’t evaluate to the value.  What am I missing on how to use parameters as normal values at run time.

Hi <@U01HG8Q2Z3P> - can you give a bit more information about how you're running your flow and passing your parameter?

```def upload_to_s3(bucket_name, output_file):
    """
    Using the following format to put the key
    [system]/[topic]/[year]/[month]/[day]/[filename]
    :param bucket_name:
    :param output_file:
    :return:
    """

    s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
    bucket = s3.Bucket(bucket_name)
    objects = [obj for obj in bucket.objects.all()]
    return objects```

specifically:  `bucket = s3.Bucket(bucket_name)` fails saying it expects a string

```with Flow("Event data pull") as flow:
    event_date = Parameter("event_date", datetime(2020, 10, 1))
    output_file = Parameter("output_file", "temp.csv")
    bucket = Parameter("bucket", "lc-dateng-exports-dev")

    events = pull_events_by_day(event_date)
    write_to_csv = write_to_csv(output_file, events)
    upload = upload_to_s3(bucket, output_file)

state = flow.run()```

Are you adding an @task decorator to your upload_to_s3 function? Without that it'll run as part of the flow context instead of getting added as a task.

Wow way to see that right away.  Thank you.  I don’t know how I missed that but I would have never found it since it was looking at me in the face.  So very appreciated.