>> Is there any buildin function which mimics the behavior of the >> standard commandline parser (generating a list of strings >> "foo bar" and "some text" from the commandline >> <"foo bar" "some text">)? > > Try the shlex module:: > > >>> import shlex > >>> shlex.split('"foo bar" "some text"') > ['foo bar', 'some text'] >
Thanks, that is exactly what i need. Andreas Huesgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list