OptionParser python module - multiple entries of same variable?

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Published on 2010-05-03T04:09:40Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 4:18 UTC
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I'm writing a little python script to get stats from several servers or a single server, and I'm using OptionParser to parse the command line input.

#!/usr/bin/python

import sys
from optparse import OptionParser
...
parser.add_option("-s", "--server", dest="server", metavar="SERVER", type="string", 
                  help="server(s) to gather stats [default: localhost]")
...

my GOAL is to be able to do something like

#test.py -s server1 -s server2

and it would append both of those values within the options.server object in some way so that I could iterate through them, whether they have 1 value or 10.

Any thoughts / help is appreciated. Thanks.

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