Python, how to parse strings to look like sys.argv

Question

I would like to parse a string like this:

-o 1  --long \"Some long string\"  

into this:

[\"-o\", \"1\", \"--long\", \'Some         


        

Answer 1

I believe you want the shlex module.

>>> import shlex
>>> shlex.split('-o 1 --long "Some long string"')
['-o', '1', '--long', 'Some long string']