Parse a string into argv-like list like OS does

[Tim Chase]

On 08/01/10 08:12, python at bdurham.com wrote:
> Before I reinvent the wheel, is there a module that provides a
> command-line like parser that I can use? By command-line like
> parser, I mean that I would like to pass a string to this
> function and get back a list in the same manner as the OS
> receives a command line string which it parses into discrete
> items (handling quoted strings, backslashes, etc)

Sounds like the shlex module...

http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html

-tkc