i'm experimanting with imaplib and came across stringts like (\HasNoChildren) "." "INBOX.Sent Items" in which the quotes are part of the string.
now i try to convert this into a list. assume the string is in the variable f, then i tried
f.split()
but i end up with
['(\\HasNoChildren)', '"."', '"INBOX.Sent', 'Items"']
so due to the sapce in "Sent Items" its is sepearted in two entries, what i don't want.
is there another way to convert a string with quoted sub entries into a list of strings?
Try the standard module shlex (http://www.python.org/dev/doc/devel/lib/module-shlex.html). It might be that the quoting rules are not exactly the ones you need, though.
Daniel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
