Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> writes: > module shlex — Simple lexical analysis > New in version 1.5.2. > "The shlex class makes it easy to write lexical analyzers for simple > syntaxes resembling that of the Unix shell."
Exactly what I needed: >>> import shlex >>> user_configured_args = "--baz 'crunch cronch' --wobble" >>> filenames = ["spam.txt", "beans.txt"] >>> command_args = ["foo", "--bar"] >>> command_args.extend(shlex.split(user_configured_args)) >>> command_args.extend(filenames) >>> command_args ['foo', '--bar', '--baz', 'crunch cronch', '--wobble', 'spam.txt', 'beans.txt'] -- \ “Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?” “I think so, | `\ Brain, but if we get Sam Spade, we'll never have any puppies.” | _o__) —_Pinky and The Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
