split string saving screened spaces

[Sergey]

Which module to use to do such thing:

"-a -b -c '1 2 3'" -> ["-a", "-b", "-c", "'1 2 3'"]

(i have string, need to pass it to getopt)

[Giovanni Bajo]

Sergey wrote:

Which module to use to do such thing: "-a -b -c '1 2 3'" -> ["-a", "-b", "-c", "'1 2 3'"]

import shlex
shlex.split("-a -b -c '1 2 3'")

['-a', '-b', '-c', '1 2 3']

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Giovanni Bajo

[bonono]

Sergey wrote:

Which module to use to do such thing:

"-a -b -c '1 2 3'" -> ["-a", "-b", "-c", "'1 2 3'"]

(i have string, need to pass it to getopt)

seems like CSV except that the seperator is space. You may check to see
if the CSV module can take space as delimiter.

[Paul McGuire]

Pyparsing has built-in quoted string support.
from pyparsing import OneOrMore,Word,alphanums,quotedString

item = Word('-',alphanums) | quotedString | Word(alphanums)
items = OneOrMore(item)

print items.parseString( "-a -b -c '1 2 3' -d 5 -e zork2000" )

gives:
['-a', '-b', '-c', "'1 2 3'", '-d', '5', '-e', 'zork2000']
Download pyparsing at http://pyparsing.sourceforge.net.

-- Paul