Trivial split for strings with multiple character delimiters, quotes and escaped characters

Installation

pip install tssplit

Usage

Syntax

def tssplit(s, quote='"\'', quote_keep=False, delimiter=':;,', escape='/^', trim='', remark='#'):
    """Split a string by delimiters with quotes and escaped characters, optionally trimming results

    :param s: A string to split into chunks
    :param quote: Quote chars to protect a part of s from parsing
    :param quote_keep: Preserve quote characters in the output or not
    :param delimiter: A chunk separator character
    :param escape: An escape character
    :param trim: Trim characters from chunks
    :param remark: Ignore all characters after remark sign
    :return: A list of chunks
    """

Example

from tssplit import tssplit

tssplit('--:--;--,--"--/--"--\'--:--\'--/"--^--',
        quote='"\'', delimiter=':;,', escape='/^', trim='')
['--', '--', '--', '----/------:----"----']

tssplit('--:--;--,--"--/--"--\'--:--\'--/"--^--',
        quote='"\'', delimiter=':;,', escape='/^', trim='', quote_keep=True)
['--', '--', '--', '--"--/--"--\'--:--\'--"----']

tssplit('--:--;--,--"--/--"--\'--:--\'--# Ignore this',
        quote='"\'', delimiter=':;,', escape='/^', trim='', quote_keep=True, remark='#')
['--', '--', '--', '--"--/--"--\'--:--\'--']

Changelog

• 2020.03.28 v1.0 Initial release
• 2020.03.28 v1.0.1 Many quick fixes to make all things work in PyPI
• 2020.03.29 v1.0.2 Minor fixes, Readme update, Long description provided
• 2020.03.29 v1.0.3 Trim option to strip() characters from chunks
• 2020.03.29 v1.0.4 Multiple characters for quotes, delimiters and escapes
• 2022.02.04 v1.0.5 Added quote_keep option to preserve quote marks in the output or not
• 2023.01.12 v1.0.6 Remark characters interrupt string parsing
• 2024.04.03 v1.0.7 Cosmetics to make pylint happy
• 2024.10.19 v1.0.8 Better module import; minor cosmetic changes