oliver wrote:
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?
First break into strings, then space-split the non-strings.
def splitup(somestring):
gen = iter(somestring.split('"'))
for unquoted in gen:
for part in unquoted.split():
yield part
yield gen.next().join('""')
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