split a string of space separated substrings - elegant solution?
Wojciech Muła
wojciech_mula at poczta.null.onet.pl.invalid
Tue Jul 31 16:57:46 EDT 2007
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for an elegant solution to the following (quite common)
> problem:
>
> Given a string of substrings separated by white space,
> split this into tuple/list of elements.
> The problem are quoted substrings like
>
> abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \" x"
>
> should be split into ('abc','xy z','1 2 3','a " x')
import csv
s = 'abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \\" x"'
r = iter(csv.reader([s], delimiter=" ", escapechar="\\"))
print r.next()
w.
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