Hi,
I'm trying to compare two logfiles in Python.
One logfile will have lines recording the message being sent:
05:00:06 Message sent - Value A: 5.6, Value B: 6.2, Value C: 9.9
the other logfile has line recording the message being received
05:00:09 Message received - Value A: 5.6, Value B: 6.2, Value C: 9.9
The goal is to compare the time stamp between the two - we can safely assume
the timestamp on the message being received is later than the timestamp on
transmission.
If it was a direct line-by-line, I could probably use itertools.izip(), right?
However, it's not a direct line-by-line comparison of the two files - the lines
I'm looking for are interspersed among other loglines, and the time difference
between sending/receiving is quite variable.
So the idea is to iterate through the sending logfile - then iterate through
the receiving logfile from that timestamp forwards, looking for the matching
pair. Obviously I want to minimise the amount of back-forth through the file.
Also, there is a chance that certain messages could get lost - so I assume
there's a threshold after which I want to give up searching for the matching
received message, and then just try to resync to the next sent message.
Is there a Pythonic way, or some kind of idiom that I can use to approach this
problem?
Cheers,
Victor
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