split parameter line with quotes

[teddyber]

wow! that's perfect this shlex module! thanks for pointing this!

On 11 jan, 20:36, Joshua Kugler <jkug... at bigfoot.com> wrote:
> teddyber wrote:
> > first i'm a newbie to python (but i searched the Internet i swear).
> > i'm looking for some way to split up a string into a list of pairs
> > 'key=value'. This code should be able to handle this particular
> > example string :
>
> > qop="auth,auth-int,auth-conf",cipher="rc4-40,rc4-56,rc4,des,
> > 3des",maxbuf=1024,charset=utf-8,algorithm=md5-sess
>
> > i know i can do that with some regexp (i'm currently trying to learn
> > that) but if there's some other way...
>
> Take a look at the shlex module.  You might be able to fiddle with the shlex
> object and convince it to split on the commas.  But, to be honest, that
> above would be a lot easier to parse if the dividing commas were spaces
> instead.
>
> j