String split with " and/or ' and/or \<sep>

[Kurt Mueller]

How to (super)split a string (literal) containing " and/or ' and/or \<sep>.

example:

' a " b b " c\ c '.supersplit(' ')
->
['a', ' b b ', 'c c']


Thanks and Grüessli

 

[Paul McGuire]

How to (super)split a string (literal) containing " and/or ' and/or \<sep>.

example:

' a  "  b b   "  c\ c '.supersplit(' ')
->
['a', '  b b   ', 'c c']

Thanks and Grüessli
--
Kurt Müller:
(e-mail address removed)

re.split(r'''['"\\]''',' a " b b " c\ c ')

[' a ', ' b b ', ' c', ' c ']

 

[Paul McGuire]

How to (super)split a string (literal) containing " and/or ' and/or \<sep>.

example:

' a  "  b b   "  c\ c '.supersplit(' ')
->
['a', '  b b   ', 'c c']

Thanks and Grüessli

Or did you mean this?

re.split(r'''['"]|\\ ''',' a " b b " c\ c ')

[' a ', ' b b ', ' c', 'c ']

(In your example, you should prefix you quoted string literal with an
r, as in:

r' a " b b " c\ c '.supersplit(' ')

That way, the '\' character will be treated as just any other
character.

-- Paul

 

[Peter Otten]

How to (super)split a string (literal) containing " and/or ' and/or
\<sep>.

example:

' a " b b " c\ c '.supersplit(' ')
->
['a', ' b b ', 'c c']


Thanks and Grüessli

['a', ' b b ', 'c c']

Peter

 

[Kurt Mueller]

How to (super)split a string (literal) containing " and/or ' and/or
\<sep>.
example:

' a " b b " c\ c '.supersplit(' ')
->
['a', ' b b ', 'c c']

import shlex
shlex.split(' a " b b " c\ c ')

['a', ' b b ', 'c c']

Thanks Peter
Thanks Paul

shlex is what I was looking for.


Grüessli