argparse: delimiter for argparse list arguments

[Jon Ribbens]

On 2021-08-03, Michael Torrie <torriem at 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.