Joel Koltner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I normally use str.split() for simple splitting of command line arguments, but >I would like to support, e.g., long file names which-- under windows -- are >typically provided as simple quoted string. E.g., > >myapp --dosomething --loadthis "my file name.fil" > >...and I'd like to get back a list wherein ListEntry[3]="my file name.fil" , > [ ... ]
Hang on, let's back up here a second. You want a command line like >myapp --dosomething --loadthis "my file name.fil" to be available as ['--dosomething', '--loadthis', 'my file name.fil'] ? What's wrong with sys.argv ? -- \S -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.chaos.org.uk/~sion/ "Frankly I have no feelings towards penguins one way or the other" -- Arthur C. Clarke her nu becomeþ se bera eadward ofdun hlæddre heafdes bæce bump bump bump
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