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Repeating positional arguments followed by a single positional argument

See original GitHub issue

It seems that Docopt is currently not able to parse repeated positional arguments (specified by ellipsis) followed by a last single-valued positional argument. I.e. something like this:

#!/usr/bin/env python

__doc__ = """
Usage: mycopy <src>... <dest>
"""
from docopt import docopt

options = docopt(__doc__)

I’m not sure whether it’s possible to do it without making the code too complex, but it would be great if Docopt was able to parse commands like this.

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naught101commented, Sep 18, 2015

This also fails:

Usage:
  naval_fate move <name>... [options] <x> <y>
...


$ ./naval_fate.py move a --drifting 2 3  
Usage:
  naval_fate move <name>... [options] <x> <y>
  naval_fate -h | --help
  naval_fate --version

It might be easier to figure out why if we had #291

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ajmazuriecommented, Feb 28, 2017

Hi! I was wondering if there was some activities related to this issue. I could get it to work with argparse, but it would be a shame to move away from docopt.

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