Accept arbitrary arguments and options with Click

Question

I'm writing a Python wrapper around another program. I want the user to be able to specify a few options for the wrapper and then pass the rest of the command-line through to the wrapped program. Something like this:

@click.command()
@click.option("--port", type=int)
@click.argument("args", nargs=-1)
def main(port, args):
    call_the_wrapped_program(port=port, args=args)

But this dies with Error: no such option: -k because it treats any command-line switch as something it should parse rather than an argument that can be added to args.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

Assuming you invoke the program with something akin to a cli command, have you tried simply calling it like this?

cli --port 8080 -- -k arg1 arg2 -r etc

If I print args with that invocation, I get all the arguments out, albeit as a string, but I'm hoping that whatever third party you want to delegate to might be able to run its own parsing over that.