Hi Tutors,
I need a little help with this, if anyone has the time and inclination:
s = 'Hi "Python Tutors" please help' s.split()
['Hi', '"Python', 'Tutors"', 'please', 'help']
I wish it would leave the stuff in quotes in tact:
['Hi', '"Python Tutors"', 'please', 'help']
You can do this easily with the csv module. The only complication is that the string has to be wrapped in a StringIO to turn it into a file-like object. If your strings are actually coming from a file then the wrapping isn't needed, you can pass the file directly to csv.reader().
>>> import StringIO, csv >>> s = 'Hi "Python Tutors" please help' >>> input = StringIO.StringIO(s) >>> csv.reader(input, delimiter=' ').next() ['Hi', 'Python Tutors', 'please', 'help']
Oops, that isn't actually what you asked for, it strips the quotes. Oh well.
Kent
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