[Python-Dev] New string method - splitquoted (original) (raw)

Dave Cinege dcinegemlists2-dated-1148412023.b4d3d0 at psychosis.com
Thu May 18 21:20:19 CEST 2006

On Thursday 18 May 2006 11:11, Guido van Rossum wrote:

This is not an apropriate function to add as a string methods. There are too many conventions for quoting and too many details to get right. One method can't possibly handle them all without an enormous number of weird options. It's better to figure out how to do this with regexps or use some of the other approaches that have been suggested. (Did anyone mention the csv module yet? It deals with this too.)

Maybe my idea is better called splitexcept instead of splitquoted, as my goal is to (simply) provide a way to limit the split by delimiters, and not dive into an all encompassing quoting algorithm.

It me this is in the spirit of the maxsplit option already present.

Dave

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