Hello,
I need to split a string as per string.strip(), but with a modification: I want it to recognize quoted strings and return them as one list item, regardless of any whitespace within the quoted string.
For example, given the string:
'spam "the life of brian" 42'
I'd want it to return:
['spam', 'the life of brian', '42']
I see no standard library function to do this, so what would be the most simple way to achieve this? This should be simple, but I must be tired as I'm not currently able to think of an elegant way to do this.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
J. W. McCall -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
