parser.py

#  @skate702 das ist genau das was du im stream mit noah versucht hast nur in python statt in scala
## tut mir leid dich belästigt zu haben wenn es dich nicht interessiert.
def parse(cmd):

    if  cmd[:4] == "abc\/" and cmd[4] != " ":
        print cmd
        cmd2 = cmd[4:].split(" ")
        #for i in cmd2: print i
        print "preamble: " + cmd[:4]
        print "command: " + cmd2[0]
        print "args: " + str(cmd2[1:])

    elif cmd[:3] == "abc" and cmd[3] != " " and cmd[4] != " ":# <--just to be sure
        cmd2 = cmd[3:].split(" ")
        print cmd
        #for i in cmd2: print i
        print "preamble: " + cmd[:3]
        print "command: " + cmd2[0]
        print "args: " + str(cmd2[1:])

    else:
        print "invalid command '%s', please check" %cmd # <--was first a ¨raise SyntaxError¨, which would stop the script completely

if __name__ == '__main__':
    # test if it works
    parse("abctime set 0")
    parse("abc/time set 0")
    parse("time set 0")
    parse("/time set 0")
    parse("abc time set 0")
    parse("abc/ time set 0")