Python split string on quotes

Question

I'm a python learner. If I have a lines of text in a file that looks like this

"Y:\DATA\00001\SERVER\DATA.TXT" "V:\DATA2\00002\SERVER2\DATA2.TXT"

Can I split the lines around the inverted commas? The only constant would be their position in the file relative to the data lines themselves. The data lines could range from 10 to 100+ characters (they'll be nested network folders). I cannot see how I can use any other way to do those markers to split on, but my lack of python knowledge is making this difficult. I've tried

optfile=line.split("")

and other variations but keep getting valueerror: empty seperator. I can see why it's saying that, I just don't know how to change it. Any help is, as always very appreciated.

Many thanks

Answer 1

No regex, no split, just use csv.reader

import csv

sample_line = '10.0.0.1 foo "24/Sep/2015:01:08:16 +0800" www.google.com "GET /" -'

def main():
    for l in csv.reader([sample_line], delimiter=' ', quotechar='"'):
        print l

The output is

['10.0.0.1', 'foo', '24/Sep/2015:01:08:16 +0800', 'www.google.com', 'GET /', '-']