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Allow nargs=-1 in options with a non-whitespace separator
What should this feature do?
Allow parsing command line options with an arbitrary number of values. This would allow to type
cli arg1 arg2 --option 1, 2, 3
instead of the more tedious and less familiar
cli arg1 arg2 --option 1 --option 2 --option 3
This has been suggested in #2537. This request is different in that options with nargs=-1
would require an additional separator
parameter, that has to be set to a non-whitespace character. This would mitigate the ambiguity issues of #2537.
I have contributed this feature to a downstream CLI library (https://github.com/fastapi/typer/pull/800) and would be happy to contribute the changes to click itself if this is something that you would like to see supported. The changes essentially imply adding a few lines to https://github.com/pallets/click/blob/4a758f5c38636ecd9d030356d85bcca3d8fbd0ca/src/click/core.py#L2267
Please comment accordingly.