multi-auth: Merged to [3151]archive/attic/multi-authattic/multi-auth

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/multi-auth@3152 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/django/utils/text.py b/django/utils/text.py
index 7b6e1182ab..7df9bc03b7 100644
--- a/django/utils/text.py
+++ b/django/utils/text.py
@@ -109,3 +109,21 @@ def javascript_quote(s):
     s = s.replace("'", "\\'")
     return str(ustring_re.sub(fix, s))
 
+smart_split_re = re.compile('("(?:[^"\\\\]*(?:\\\\.[^"\\\\]*)*)"|\'(?:[^\'\\\\]*(?:\\\\.[^\'\\\\]*)*)\'|[^\\s]+)')
+def smart_split(text):
+    """
+    Generator that splits a string by spaces, leaving quoted phrases together.
+    Supports both single and double quotes, and supports escaping quotes with
+    backslashes. In the output, strings will keep their initial and trailing
+    quote marks.
+    >>> list(smart_split('This is "a person\'s" test.'))
+    ['This', 'is', '"a person\'s"', 'test.']
+    """
+    for bit in smart_split_re.finditer(text):
+        bit = bit.group(0)
+        if bit[0] == '"':
+            yield '"' + bit[1:-1].replace('\\"', '"').replace('\\\\', '\\') + '"'
+        elif bit[0] == "'":
+            yield "'" + bit[1:-1].replace("\\'", "'").replace("\\\\", "\\") + "'"
+        else:
+            yield bit