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mystack
mystack

Reputation: 5492

Split a string in python

I have python string as follows 

mystring = "copy "d:\Progrm Files" "c:\Progrm Files\once up on a time""

how can I split this string to 

mylist = [copy,d:\Progrm Files,c:\Progrm Files\once up on a time]

When I tried to use mysring.split(" ") the spaces Progrm Files and once up on a time are also getting split.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 206

Answers (2)

Inbar Rose
Inbar Rose

Reputation: 43437

this regex catches what you want:

import re

mystring = "copy \"d:\Progrm Files\" \"c:\Progrm Files\once up on a time\""

m = re.search(r'([\w]*) ["]?([[\w]:\\[\w\\ ]+)*["]? ["]?([[\w]:\\[\w\\ ]+)*["]?', mystring)

print m.group(1)
print m.group(2)
print m.group(3)

>>> 
copy
d:\Progrm Files
c:\Progrm Files\once up on a time

Upvotes: 1

Martijn Pieters
Martijn Pieters

Reputation: 1121346

You want to take a look at the shlex module, the shell lexer. It specializes in splitting command lines such as yours into it's constituents, including handling quoting correctly.

>>> import shlex
>>> command = r'copy "d:\Program Files" "c:\Program Files\once up on a time"'
>>> shlex.split(command)
['copy', 'd:\\Program Files', 'c:\\Program Files\\once up on a time']

Upvotes: 9

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