is there any lib can split string in this way?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Leo Jay wrote:

> I want to split a string like this:
> 'abc  def  "this is a test"  ok'
> into:
> ['abc', 'def', 'this is a test', 'ok']
>
> is there any lib meet my need?

>>> s = 'abc  def  "this is a test"  ok'

>>> import shlex
>>> shlex.split(s)
['abc', 'def', 'this is a test', 'ok']

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