Re: Quote-aware string splitting

J. W. McCall wrote:

> For example, given the string:
>
> 'spam "the life of brian" 42'
>
> I'd want it to return:
>
> ['spam', 'the life of brian', '42']

The .split() method of strings can take a substring, such as a quotation
mark, as a delimiter. So a simple solution is:

>>> x = 'spam "the life of brian" 42'
>>> [z.strip() for z in x.split('"')]
['spam', 'the life of brian', '42']


Jeffrey
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