[Tutor] str.split and quotes

[Tony Meyer]

> That won't work for the general case. I spent about 30 minutes trying 
> to come up with a reliably non-re way and kept hitting bugs like the 
> one here. Given that Tony_combine is a function wrapping Tony's logic:
> 
>  >>> Tony_combine('This will not work as "more than two words" are 
> quoted')
> ['This', 'will', 'not', 'work', 'as', 'than', 'two', '"more words"', 
> 'are', 'quoted']

Opps.  You're right.  This is probably even uglier (can't be bothered
tidying it up), but should work in the more general case and does combine
them up again:

def Tony_combine2(s):
    combined = []
    b = []
    in_quotes = False
    for a in s.split():
        if '"' in a and in_quotes:
            combined.append(a)
            b.append(" ".join(combined))
            combined = []
            in_quotes = False
            continue
        elif '"' in a and not in_quotes:
            in_quotes = True
        if in_quotes:
            combined.append(a)
        else:
            b.append(a)
    return b

>>> Tony_combine('This will not work as "more than two words" are quoted')
['This', 'will', 'not', 'work', 'as', '"more than two words"', 'are',
'quoted']

Writing your own split or using re is definitely nicer, though.

=Tony.Meyer