Jim wrote: > Is there some easy way to split a line, keeping together double-quoted > strings?
using the re module I find this to probably be the easiest but in no way is this gospel :) import re rex = re.compile(r'(".*?"|\S)') sub = 'a b c "d e"' res = [x for x in re.split(rex, sub) if not x.isspace()][1:-1] print res # -> ['a', 'b', 'c', '"d e"'] basically import the re module, compile a pattern, identify a string, create a list comprehension with a filter, slice out the result and print to screen. I hope this helps. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list