[Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted

[Dave Cinege]

Very often....make 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:

s = '      Chan: 11  SNR: 22  ESSID: "Spaced Out Wifi"  Enc: On'

If I want to yank the essid in the above example, it's a pain. But with my new 
dandy split quoted method, we have a 3rd argument to .split() that we can 
spec the quote delimiter where no splitting will occur, and the quote char 
will be dropped:

	s.split(None,-1,'"')[5]
	'Spaced Out Wifi'

Attached is a proof of concept patch against 
Python-2.4.1/Objects/stringobject.c  that implements this. It is limited to 
whitespace splitting only. (sep == None)

As implemented the quote delimiter also doubles as an additional separator for 
the spliting out a substr. 

For example:
	'There is"no whitespace before these"quotes'.split(None,-1,'"')
	['There', 'is', 'no whitespace before these', 'quotes']

This is useful, but possibly better put into practice as a separate method??

Comments please.

Dave
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