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

Here's one way: Take the fileLst generating string in as a string and then use http://docs.python.org/2/library/glob.html to do the expansion ugh this might not work without escaping the *

Actually, got a better way: python myprog.py -V -l 1000 /home/dominic/radar/*.json <- If this is your command line

parser, opts = parse_args()

inFileLst = parser.largs