I normally use str.split() for simple splitting of command line arguments, but I would like to support, e.g., long file names which-- under windows -- are typically provided as simple quoted string. E.g.,
myapp --dosomething --loadthis "my file name.fil" ...and I'd like to get back a list wherein ListEntry[3]="my file name.fil" , but just running str.split() on the above string creates: >>> ListEntry='myapp --dosomething --loadthis "my file name.fil"' >>> ListEntry.split() ['myapp', '--dosomething', '--loadthis', '"my', 'file', 'name.fil"'] Is there an easy way to provide just this one small additional feature (keeping quoted names as a single entry) rather than going to a full-blown command-line argument parsing tool? Even regular expressions seem like they'd probably be overkill here? Or no? Thanks, ---Joel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
