cmd with three arguments

[kaklis at gmail.com]

On May 17, 4:12 pm, Tim Chase <python.l... at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 07:11 AM, kak... at gmail.com wrote:
>
> > While playing with the Python Standard Library, i came across "cmd".
> > So I'm trying to make a console application. Everything works fine, i
> > created many function with do_....(self, line) prefix, but when i
> > tried to create a function with more arguments
> >   i can't make it work.  e.g
> > def do_connect(self, ip, command):
>
> >>>> connect 127.0.0.1 delete
> >   Are there any work arounds
>
> You simply receive all the text after the command:
>
>    class C(Cmd):
>      def do_thing(self, arguments):
>        print repr(arguments)
>
> If you want to split it, you can do it boringly:
>
>      def do_thing(self, arguments):
>        args = arguments.split()
>
> or you can let Python's standard library do some heavy-lifting
> for you:
>
>    import shlex
>    #...
>      def do_thing(self, arguments):
>        args = shlex.split(arguments)
>
> -tkc

Thanks, great answer!!!