On 02/04/2021 12:38, Peter Otten wrote:
On 02/04/2021 11:16, Egon Frerich wrote:
I have a string like
'"ab,c" , def'
and need to separate it into
"ab,c" and "def".
split separates at the first ',':
bl
'"a,bc", def'
bl.split(',')
['"a', 'bc"', ' def']
The initial string looks like it's close enough to the CSV format.
Unfortunately Python's csv module operates on files, not strings -- to
use it you have to wrap the string into a stream:
import csv
import io
next(csv.reader(io.StringIO('"ab,c" , def')))
['ab,c ', ' def']
Apply str.strip() on every part to remove leading and trailing whitespace:
def mysplit(s):
return [part.strip() for part in next(csv.reader(io.StringIO(s)))]
mysplit('"ab,c" , def')
['ab,c', 'def']
I forgot that the reader() accepts arbitrary iterables. Instead of
io.StringIO(s) you can just write [s].
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