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From: Tim Chase on 1 Aug 2010 09:28
On 08/01/10 08:12, python(a)bdurham.com wrote:
> Before I reinvent the wheel, is there a module that provides a
> command-line like parser that I can use? By command-line like
> parser, I mean that I would like to pass a string to this
> function and get back a list in the same manner as the OS
> receives a command line string which it parses into discrete
> items (handling quoted strings, backslashes, etc)

Sounds like the shlex module...

http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html

-tkc



From: python on 1 Aug 2010 09:42
Tim,

> Sounds like the shlex module...
> http://docs.python.org/library/shlex.html

Cheers for the link - that's *exactly* what I was searching for.

For the archives: Here's an excellent tutorial on this module.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/10/pymotw_shlex.html

Malcolm
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