tokenise a string

[Matthias Teege]

Moin,

I'm new to python. I try to build a "easy" search interface to a
database table in python. I have a input string like this:
"name=matthias;count>10" or this "location!=thisone". From this input
I try to build a SQL query like this: select * from tbl where
nme='matthias' and cnt > 10.

So I must parse the input, build tokens and map the fieldnames. Is
there a special modul which I can use or are the standard string
functions adequate?

Many thanks
Matthias
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