On Sun, 13 May 2012 14:14:58 -0700, Massi wrote: > 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:
And now you have two problems *wink* > Any hints? Thanks in advance! >>> s = "This is a 'simple test':'string which' shows 'exactly my' problem" >>> import shlex >>> result = shlex.split(s, posix=True) >>> result ['This', 'is', 'a', 'simple test:string which', 'shows', 'exactly my', 'problem'] Then do some post-processing on the result: >>> ["'"+s+"'" if " " in s else s for s in result] ['This', 'is', 'a', "'simple test:string which'", 'shows', "'exactly my'", 'problem'] -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
