Passing a List to Python From Command Line

I would like to make my python script run from the command line when supplies with some arguments. However, one of the arguments should be a list of options specific to one segment of the script. Would string parsing be the only way to do this by actually constructing the list after the "command line list" string is split from commas? If so, how would you go about that?

Example: -details=['name', 'title', 'address']