Maybe define a class which wraps a file-like object. Its next() method (or
is it __next__() method?) can just buffer up lines starting with one which
successfully parses as a timestamp, accumulates all the rest, until a blank
line or EOF is seen, then return that, either as a list of strings, one
massive string, or some higher level representation (presumably an instance
of another class) which represents one "paragraph" of iostat output.
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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Victor Hooi <victorh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to parse iostat -xt output using Python. The quirk with iostat
> is that the output for each second runs over multiple lines. For example:
>
> 06/30/2015 03:09:17 PM
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 0.03 0.00 0.03 0.00 0.00 99.94
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
> xvdap1 0.00 0.04 0.02 0.07 0.30 3.28
> 81.37 0.00 29.83 2.74 38.30 0.47 0.00
> xvdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 11.62 0.00 0.23 0.19 2.13 0.16 0.00
> xvdf 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 10.29 0.00 0.41 0.41 0.73 0.38 0.00
> xvdg 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 9.12 0.00 0.36 0.35 1.20 0.34 0.00
> xvdh 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 33.35 0.00 1.39 0.41 8.91 0.39 0.00
> dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 11.66 0.00 0.46 0.46 0.00 0.37 0.00
>
> 06/30/2015 03:09:18 PM
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 99.50
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
> xvdap1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdf 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdg 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdh 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>
> 06/30/2015 03:09:19 PM
> avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle
> 0.00 0.00 0.50 0.00 0.00 99.50
>
> Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rkB/s wkB/s avgrq-sz
> avgqu-sz await r_await w_await svctm %util
> xvdap1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdb 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdf 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdg 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> xvdh 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> dm-0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
> 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
>
> Essentially I need to parse the output in "chunks", where each chunk is
> separated by a timestamp.
>
> I was looking at itertools.groupby(), but that doesn't seem to quite do
> what I want here - it seems more for grouping lines, where each is united
> by a common key, or something that you can use a function to check for.
>
> Another thought was something like:
>
> for line in f:
> if line.count("/") == 2 and line.count(":") == 2:
> current_time = datetime.strptime(line.strip(), '%m/%d/%y
> %H:%M:%S')
> while line.count("/") != 2 and line.count(":") != 2:
> print(line)
> continue
>
> But that didn't quite seem to work.
>
> Is there a Pythonic way of parsing the above iostat output, and break it
> into chunks split by the timestamp?
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
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