Re: Parsing a commandline from within Python

[Steven Bethard]

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> 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']

STeVe
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