[Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

[Dave Cinege]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 04:21, Giovanni Bajo wrote:

> It's already there. It's called shlex.split(), and follows the semantic of
> a standard UNIX shell, including escaping and other things.

Not quite. As I said in my other post, simple is the idea for this, just like 
the split method itself.  (no escaping, etc.....just recognizing delimiters 
as an exception to the split seperatation) 

shlex.split() does not let one choose the separator or use a maxsplit, nor is 
it a pure method to strings.

Dave