I recently ran into a case I hadn’t seen before with python’s argparse. Multiple arguments in a single option, e.g. “—foo bar daz” with —foo set to ‘*’ swallows

I recently ran into a case I hadn’t seen before with python’s argparse. Multiple arguments in a single option, e.g. “—foo bar daz” with —foo set to ‘*’ swallows both bar and daz, where I would have expected to have to explicitly specify “—foo bar —foo daz” to get that behaviour. I guess this is a side effect of treating non-option arguments the same as dash-prefixed arguments, but I have no idea what the “standard” to expect with this is? Otherwise, my main bugbear is software using underscore instead of dash for long-names, and especially applications or suites that mix these cases. I really like the simplicity that docopt somewhat forces you into, which avoids most of these tricky edge cases, but am seeing less and less usage nowadays of it.