Cookbook

Multiple values per argument

Use nargs from argparse by amending the function signature with the argh.decorators.arg() decorator:

@argh.arg('-p', '--patterns', nargs='*')
def cmd(patterns=None):
    distros = ('abc', 'xyz')
    return [d for d in distros if not patterns
                                  or any(p in d for p in patterns)]

Resulting CLI:

$ app
abc
xyz

$ app --patterns
abc
xyz

$ app -p a
abc

$ app -p ab yz
abc
xyz

Note that you need to specify both short and long names of the argument because @arg turns off the “smart” mechanism.