Split by comma and how to exclude comma from quotes in split … Python

Question

python 2.7 code

cStr = \'\"aaaa\",\"bbbb\",\"ccc,ffffd\"\' 

newStr = cStr.split(\',\')

print newStr 

# result : [\'\"aaaa\"\',\'\"bbbb\"\',\'\"ccc\',\'ffffd\         


        

Answer 1

Try to use CSV.

import csv
cStr = '"aaaa","bbbb","ccc,ffffd"'
newStr = [ '"{}"'.format(x) for x in list(csv.reader([cStr], delimiter=',', quotechar='"'))[0] ]

print newStr

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