List of arguments with argparse

Question

I\'m trying to pass a list of arguments with argparse but the only way that I\'ve found involves rewriting the option for each argument that I want to pass:

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Answer 1

Use nargs:

ArgumentParser objects usually associate a single command-line argument with a single action to be taken. The nargs keyword argument associates a different number of command-line arguments with a single action.

For example, if nargs is set to '+'

Just like '*', all command-line args present are gathered into a list. Additionally, an error message will be generated if there wasn’t at least one command-line argument present.

So, your code would look like

parser.add_argument('-t', dest='table', help='', nargs='+')

That way -t arguments will be gathered into list automatically (you don't have to explicitly specify the action).