How can i parse a comma delimited string into a list (caveat)?

Question

I need to be able to take a string like:

\'\'\'foo, bar, \"one, two\", three four\'\'\'

into:

[\'foo\', \'bar\', \'one, two         


        

Answer 1

I'd say a regular expression would be what you're looking for here, though I'm not terribly familiar with Python's Regex engine.

Assuming you use lazy matches, you can get a set of matches on a string which you can put into your array.