From 01ca56fdcedb37127250a771a01152e0817701d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Festi <florian@festi.info>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 20:04:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Support all different section syntaxes (sx, sy, ...) side by
 side

---
 boxes/__init__.py | 27 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/boxes/__init__.py b/boxes/__init__.py
index 0b3d691..0f9afb2 100755
--- a/boxes/__init__.py
+++ b/boxes/__init__.py
@@ -147,19 +147,28 @@ def argparseSections(s):
     :param s: string to parse
 
     """
-    m = re.match(r"(\d+(\.\d+)?)/(\d+)", s)
-    if m:
-        n = int(m.group(3))
-        return [float(m.group(1)) / n] * n
-    m = re.match(r"(\d+(\.\d+)?)\*(\d+)", s)
-    if m:
-        n = int(m.group(3))
-        return [float(m.group(1))] * n
+
+    result = []
+
+    s = re.split(r"\s|:", s)
+
     try:
-        return [float(part) for part in s.split(":")]
+        for part in s:
+            m = re.match(r"^(\d+(\.\d+)?)/(\d+)$", part)
+            if m:
+                n = int(m.group(3))
+                result.extend([float(m.group(1)) / n] * n)
+                continue
+            m = re.match(r"^(\d+(\.\d+)?)\*(\d+)$", part)
+            if m:
+                n = int(m.group(3))
+                result.extend([float(m.group(1))] * n)
+                continue
+            result.append(float(part))
     except ValueError:
         raise argparse.ArgumentTypeError("Don't understand sections string")
 
+    return result
 
 class ArgparseEdgeType:
     """argparse type to select from a set of edge types"""