split a string with quoted parts into list
Daniel Dittmar
daniel.dittmar at sap.corp
Thu Mar 10 04:36:25 EST 2005
oliver wrote:
> i'm experimanting with imaplib and came across stringts like
> (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent Items"
> in which the quotes are part of the string.
>
> now i try to convert this into a list. assume the string is in the variable
> f, then i tried
> f.split()
> but i end up with
> ['(\\HasNoChildren)', '"."', '"INBOX.Sent', 'Items"']
> so due to the sapce in "Sent Items" its is sepearted in two entries, what i
> don't want.
>
> is there another way to convert a string with quoted sub entries into a list
> of strings?
Try the standard module shlex
(http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-shlex.html). It might be
that the quoting rules are not exactly the ones you need, though.
Daniel
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