On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Now, a simple split doesn't work since it splits the quoted text as well. > Is there a simple way to do so? > It would be nice if it could handle embedded quotes which are escaped > by a backslash, too.
Sounds like you want shell-style splitting. Check out the shlex module: http://docs.python.org/3.3/library/shlex.html ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
