Re: [Tutor] str.split and quotes

[Brian van den Broek]

Tony Meyer said unto the world upon 2005-04-06 01:59:
s = 'Hi "Python Tutors" please help'
s.split()
['Hi', '"Python', 'Tutors"', 'please', 'help']
I wish it would leave the stuff in quotes in tact:
['Hi', '"Python Tutors"', 'please', 'help']

You can do this with a regular expression:

<SNIP re solution>
Or you can just join them back up again:

combined = []
b = []
for a in s.split():
...         if '"' in a:
...             if combined:
...                     combined.append(a)
...                     b.append(" ".join(combined))
...                     combined = []
...             else:
...                     combined.append(a)
...     else:
...             b.append(a)
...             
b
['Hi', '"Python Tutors"', 'please', 'help']
(There are probably tidier ways of doing that).
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']

Happily, the other solution Tony offered works for my case and thus 
saves me the hassle of fixing my attempt :-)

Or you can do the split yourself:
def split_no_quotes(s):
<SNIP code which works for my test case>
Best to all,
Brian vdB
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