Passing a List to Python From Command Line

Question

I would like to make my python script run from the command line when supplies with some arguments. However, one of the arguments should be a list of options specific to one

Answer 1

Yes, argparse is your best bet, and if you want to provide a list of values to one of your named arguments, it looks like this (the nargs parameter is the key to this):

>>> import argparse
>>> arg_parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
>>> arg_parser.add_argument('--details',
                            nargs='*',
                            type=str,
                            default=[],
                            help='a list of the details')

# your args on the command line like this example
>>> the_args = arg_parser.parse_args("--details 'name' 'title' 'address'".split())
>>> print the_args.details
["'name'", "'title'", "'address'"])