On May 16, 12:42 pm, mosscliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am looking for a simple split function to create a list of entries > from a string which contains quoted elements. Like in 'google' > search. > > eg string = 'bob john "johnny cash" 234 june' > > and I want to have a list of ['bob', 'john, 'johnny cash', '234', > 'june'] > > I wondered about using the csv routines, but I thought I would ask the > experts first. > > There maybe a simple function, but as yet I have not found it. >
See 'split' from 'shlex' module: >>> s = 'bob john "johnny cash" 234 june' >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split(s) ['bob', 'john', 'johnny cash', '234', 'june'] >>> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
