Simple question - is there something like python's shlex.split that would allow me to simply parse/split/quote/escape shell-like quoted/backslashed strings ?
Link to shlex docs: http://docs.python.org/3.4/library/shlex.html
Example of what shlex.split does:
>>> import shlex
>>> shlex.split('abc ab\\ c "ab\\"cd" key="\\"val\\""')
['abc', 'ab c', 'ab"cd', 'key="val"']