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Options with multiple arguments

Is it possible to have multiples options with more than one argument in docopt, without knowing the number of these arguments?

I would like to do something like this with a variable number of arguments:

Usage:
    myprog.py --option1 ARG1 ARG2... --option2 ARG3 ARG4 ARG5...

I tried to use <arg>... but it only works as positional argument.

Thanks for help.

Solution

  • You can give an option several times, but you have to specify the option each time. For example it could look like this:

    """Example of program with options repeated using docopt.
Usage:
  myprog.py [--options1=OPT]...
"""
from docopt import docopt

if __name__ == '__main__':
    arguments = docopt(__doc__)
    print(arguments)

    And the output would look like this:

    $ python myprog.py --options1=test1 --options1=test2
{'--options1': ['test1', 'test2']}