On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:11, Guido van Rossum wrote: > This is not an apropriate function to add as a string methods. There > are too many conventions for quoting and too many details to get > right. One method can't possibly handle them all without an enormous > number of weird options. It's better to figure out how to do this with > regexps or use some of the other approaches that have been suggested. > (Did anyone mention the csv module yet? It deals with this too.)
Maybe my idea is better called splitexcept instead of splitquoted, as my goal is to (simply) provide a way to limit the split by delimiters, and not dive into an all encompassing quoting algorithm. It me this is in the spirit of the maxsplit option already present. Dave _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
