With Python's optparse module, how do you create an option that takes a variable number of arguments?

Question

With Perl\'s Getopt::Long you can easily define command-line options that take a variable number of arguments:

foo.pl --files a.txt             --ve         


        

Answer 1

Wouldn't you be better off with this?

foo.pl --files a.txt,b.txt,c.txt --verbose