Repeatable commands with optional arguments doesn't work in experimental branch

[shabbyrobe]

It feels like #4 will solve this problem (though a solution for #4 does indeed seem like it will be anything but trivial), but when I try to provide optional arguments to a repeatable subcommand, the indexing makes it impossible to work out which command each argument belongs to.

The following example raises an IndexError on the third iteration because the --speed 999 gets interpreted as part of the second go command rather than the third:

import docopt
arguments = docopt.docopt(
    "usage: prog (go <direction> [--speed=<km/h>])...",
    "go forwardnotbackward --speed 123  go upwardnotforward  go twirling --speed 999"
)

for i in xrange(0, arguments['go']):
    print arguments['<direction>'][i]
    print arguments['--speed'][i]

[keleshev]

Doing (go <direction> [--speed=<km/h>])... is not possible in any other cli parser (as I know), so I wouldn't say:

Repeatable commands with optional arguments doesn't work

They work as intended. But maybe what I intended is not optimal.

However, #4 lacks API and I don't know how to resolve it or this issue yet. Any ideas?

[keleshev]

Maybe args['go'] should accumulate arguments and options passed after it? Right now commands are treated same as flag options (they are True/False or counted). However, maybe, they should be treated more like options with arguments? I.e. having other options/arguments as its value?

[keleshev]

Any ideas? How do we solve this? Is this a problem?