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

If it doesn't need to be pretty, this might get you on your way:

def f(s, splitifeven):
    if splitifeven & 1:
        return [s]
    return [x.strip() for x in s.split(",") if x.strip() != '']

ss = 'foo, bar, "one, two", three four'

print sum([f(s, sie) for sie, s in enumerate(ss.split('"'))], [])