Hi everyone,
I know this question has been asked thousands of times, but in my case
I have an additional requirement to be satisfied. I need to handle
substrings in the form 'string with spaces':'another string with
spaces' as a single token; I mean, if I have this string:
s ="This is a 'simple test':'string which' shows 'exactly my'
problem"
I need to split it as follow (the single quotes must be mantained in
the splitted list):
["This", "is", "a", "'simple test':'string which'", "shows",
"'exactly my'", "problem"]
Up to know I have written some ugly code which uses regular
expression:
splitter = re.compile("(?=\s|^)('[^']+') | ('[^']+')(?=\s|$)")
temp = [t for t in splitter.split(s) if t not in [None, '']]
print temp
t = []
for i, p in enumerate(temp) :
for x in ([p] if (p[0] == "'" and p[1] == "'") else p.split('
')) :
t.append(x)
But it does not handle "colon" case.
Any hints? Thanks in advance!
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