Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 06:06 schrieb Dave Cinege: This is useful, but possibly better put into practice as a separate method?? I personally don't think it's particularily useful, at least not in the special case that your patch tries to address. 1) Generally, you won't only have one

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: This is not an apropriate function to add as a string methods. There are too many conventions for quoting and too many details to get right. One method can't possibly handle them all without an enormous number of weird options. It's better

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thursday 18 May 2006 16:13, you wrote: Dave Cinege wrote: For example: s = ' Chan: 11 SNR: 22 ESSID: Spaced Out Wifi Enc: On' My complaint with this example is that you are just using the wrong tool to do this job. If I was going to do this, I would've immediately jumped on

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-20 Thread Guido van Rossum
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. We hear you, Dave, but this is not a suitable function to add to the standard library. Many respondents are trying to tell you that in many different ways. If you keep arguing for it, we'll just ignore you. --Guido PS. Give up TDMA. Try Spambayes

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 06:06 schrieb Dave Cinege: This is useful, but possibly better put into practice as a separate method?? I personally don't think it's particularily useful, at least not in the special case that your patch tries to address. 1) Generally, you won't only have one

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Neal Norwitz
On 5/17/06, Dave Cinege [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very oftenmake that very very very very very very very very very often, I find myself processing text in python that when .split()'ing a line, I'd like to exclude the split for a 'quoted' item...quoted because it contains whitespace or the

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong, I personally find this functionality very, very interesting (I'm +0.5 on adding it in some way or another), especially as a part of the standard library (not necessarily as an extension to .split()). It's already there. It's called

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 10:21 schrieb Giovanni Bajo: Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong, I personally find this functionality very, very interesting (I'm +0.5 on adding it in some way or another), especially as a part of the standard library (not necessarily as an

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Heiko Wundram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't get me wrong, I personally find this functionality very, very interesting (I'm +0.5 on adding it in some way or another), especially as a part of the standard library (not necessarily as an extension to .split()). It's already there. It's called

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 12:26 schrieb Giovanni Bajo: I believe the standard library already covers common usage. There will surely be cases where a custom lexer/splitetr will have to be written, but that's life The csv data field parser handles all common usage I have encountered so far,

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Nick Coghlan
Dave Cinege wrote: Very oftenmake that very very very very very very very very very often, I find myself processing text in python that when .split()'ing a line, I'd like to exclude the split for a 'quoted' item...quoted because it contains whitespace or the sep char. For example:

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Guido van Rossum
This is not an apropriate function to add as a string methods. There are too many conventions for quoting and too many details to get right. One method can't possibly handle them all without an enormous number of weird options. It's better to figure out how to do this with regexps or use some of

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Heiko Wundram
Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 17:11 schrieb Guido van Rossum: (Did anyone mention the csv module yet? It deals with this too.) Yes, mentioned it thrice. ;-) --- Heiko. ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Dave Cinege
On Thursday 18 May 2006 03:00, Heiko Wundram wrote: Am Donnerstag 18 Mai 2006 06:06 schrieb Dave Cinege: This is useful, but possibly better put into practice as a separate method?? I personally don't think it's particularily useful, at least not in the special case that your patch tries

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread 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.

Re: [Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

2006-05-18 Thread Giovanni Bajo
Dave Cinege 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