Re: Parsing a commandline from within Python

2007-10-11 Thread Andreas Huesgen
>> Is there any buildin function which mimics the behavior of the >> standard commandline parser (generating a list of strings >> "foo bar" and "some text" from the commandline >> <"foo bar" "some text">)? > > Try the shlex module:: > > >>> import shlex > >>> shlex.split('"foo bar" "so

Re: Parsing a commandline from within Python

2007-10-11 Thread Steven Bethard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is there any buildin function which mimics the behavior of the > standard commandline parser (generating a list of strings > "foo bar" and "some text" from the commandline > <"foo bar" "some text">)? Try the shlex module:: >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split('"fo

Parsing a commandline from within Python

2007-10-11 Thread andreas . huesgen
Hello, I am writing a commandline tool in Python which is often feed with lots of commandline arguments. In practice, the commandline already reached a critical length which is to long for Windows (some versions of Windows only support commandlines of up to 2047 characters). To work around this