regular expression for space seperated quoted string

[Padraig Brady]

Eric Brunel wrote:
> Padraig Brady wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi, I'm trying to split a string that is seperated
>>by spaces and also contains double quoted words which
>>can contain spaces:

[snip]

> What about:
> 
>>>>p = r'[^ \t\n\v\f"]+|"[^"]*"'
>>>>re.findall(p, '1 2 3')

FYI, I'm using the following:

import fileinput, re
for line in fileinput.input():
     #split fields
     fields = re.findall('[^ "]+|"[^"]+"', line[:-1])
     #remove quotes
     fields = map(lambda field: field.replace('"', ''), listLine)

thanks again,
Pádraig.