Problem in splitting a string

[wes weston]

Angelo Secchi wrote:
> Hi,
> I have string of numbers and words like
> 
> ',,,,,,23,,,asd,,,,,"name,surname",,,,,,,\n'
> 
> and I would like to split (I'm using string.split()) it using comma as
> separator but I do not want to split in two also the "name,surname"
> field. In other word I would like python in separating fields to skip
> that particular comma.
> 
> How can I do that?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Angelo
> 
> 
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Angelo,
   For example, how how would you want the example given to
be split?
wes