Splitting with quoted strings?

[Chris Barker]

Is there any nifty way to do a string.split() that doesn't split inside
quotes?

what I want is (for example):

'this that "the other" some more'.split()

to give me ['this', 'that', 'the other', 'some', 'more'] 

I would ideally like it to be pretty fast. It turns out this is pretty
common in a bunch of the text files I need to read, and it is also a
form put out by Excel, and used for *nix command lines, etc., so I
figured someone might have written a nice extension to do this.


Thanks, Chris




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