optparse commandline

[vvikram]

I want to call some function from my program and just pass it a
commandline. It should parse the commandline and return back a list of
parsed arguments (just like the sys.argv list)

Example:
foo.parse_cmdline("/usr/bin/foorun -v -d -h")
==['/usr/bin/foorun', '-v', '-d','-h']

Any suggestions on how to do this are appreciated.

Regards
Vikram

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:59:29 +0000, vvikram wrote:

>
I want to call some function from my program and just pass it a
commandline. It should parse the commandline and return back a list of
parsed arguments (just like the sys.argv list)

Example:
foo.parse_cmdline("/usr/bin/foorun -v -d -h")
==['/usr/bin/foorun', '-v', '-d','-h']

Any suggestions on how to do this are appreciated.

def parse_cmdline(s):
"""Split a command line string s into words."""
import shlex
return shlex.split(s)


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Steven.