Parsing a commandline from within Python

[Andreas Huesgen]

>> Is there any buildin function which mimics the behavior of the
>> standard commandline parser (generating a list of strings
>> "foo bar" and "some text" from the commandline
>> <"foo bar" "some text">)?
> 
> Try the shlex module::
> 
>      >>> import shlex
>      >>> shlex.split('"foo bar" "some text"')
>      ['foo bar', 'some text']
> 

Thanks, that is exactly what i need.


Andreas Huesgen