split string but ignore sep inside double quotes

[Andrea Crotti]

Jonno <jonnojohnson at gmail.com> writes:

> All,
>
> I have the following unicode object:
> u'3,"Some, text",more text'
>
> and I want to split it into a list like this:
> [3,"Some, text", more text]
>
> In other words I want to split on the comma but not if it's inside a
> double-quote.
>
> Thanks.

I'm not sure how but also this seems to work:
In[20]: s = '2,"some, text",more text'

In [21]: re.split(r'(?<=">),', s)
Out[21]: ['2,"some, text",more text']

I just wanted to try the lookahead functions, which I never use but
sometimes might come handy.