On 2021-08-03, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8/2/21 1:43 PM, Sven R. Kunze wrote: >> maybe, I am missing something here but is it possible to specify a >> delimiter for list arguments in argparse: >> >> https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html >> >> Usually, '--' is used to separate two lists (cf. git). > > I've not seen this syntax in git. Are you referring the the double and > triple dot notation git uses? Can you give me an example of how git > uses -- as a list separator?
Loads of git commands do this. e.g. commit, diff, log, status, etc. It's not completely unlike what you're describing above, which is already supported automatically by argparse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list