Disassembling strings and turning them into function parameters

[Fredrik Lundh]

<mercuryprey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty new to Python, to programming overall...so how would I make
> something where the user inputs multiple words in a string - like
> "connect 123.123.123.123 21 user password" or similar, and then I can
> split this string up to pass these arguments to a function like
> ftp_connect(ip, port, user, pw) etc...? I have no idea how to "break"
> the string up so I can get these out of it..

you can use the split() method to split on whitespace:

    >>> s = "connect 123.123.123.123 21 user password"
    >>> s.split()
    ['connect', '123.123.123.123', '21', 'user', 'password']

btw, the cmd module might be useful for your project:

    http://effbot.org/librarybook/cmd.htm
    http://docs.python.org/lib/module-cmd.html

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