Re: split a string of space separated substrings - elegant solution?

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,

I'm looking for an elegant solution to the following (quite common)
problem:

Given a string of substrings separated by white space,
split this into tuple/list of elements.
The problem are quoted substrings like

abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \" x"

should be split into ('abc','xy z','1 2 3','a " x')

import csv

s = 'abc "xy z" "1 2 3" "a \\" x"'
r = iter(csv.reader([s], delimiter=" ", escapechar="\\"))
print r.next()

w.
.

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