How to parse a request into several variables in a telegram bot?

Question

Python

Essence of the question: The user sends a few words to the telegram bot. It is necessary to parse this query into several variables, compose an sql query from them and return the result to the user.
I can't find information anywhere. Please give advice on how to implement this.

Answer 1

Request example? It must follow some specific form, I hope?
If the query simply consists of a few words separated by spaces (optionally, a quoted string counts as one word), then look into shlex . But apart from how to "split the string by spaces and escape quotes" shlex can do little.
If you need something like a command line (with features like --keys and optional parameters), look into argparse . Here you have data type conversion (i.e. "this parameter must be a number"), and usage information, and much more.
If something even more tricky, then look towards regular expressions. They allow you to recognize rather intricate patterns, but a lot will have to be done manually.
If you need an analysis of natural speech ... this is a chore.
So I would look at argparse first. It is sharpened for command line arguments, but chatbots are not far from it.

Answer 2

You can use the split() method.
For example:

responce = '#word1 #word2 #word3'
words = [word.strip() for word in responce.split('#') if word]
print(words)