On Jul 14, 6:33 pm, "Joel Koltner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
look at the shlex module: >>> import shlex >>> txt = 'myapp --dosomething --loadthis "my file name.fil"' >>> shlex.split(txt) ['myapp', '--dosomething', '--loadthis', 'my file name.fil'] Matt -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list