Split a string by spaces — preserving quoted substrings — in Python

Question

I have a string which is like this:

this is \"a test\"

I\'m trying to write something in Python to split it up by space while ignoring spac

Answer 1

As an option try tssplit:

In [1]: from tssplit import tssplit
In [2]: tssplit('this is "a test"', quote='"', delimiter='')
Out[2]: ['this', 'is', 'a test']