Completly untested:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, datetime
user = sys.argv[1]
starttime = None
for l in sys.stdin:
flds = l.strip().split()
datestr, timestr, prog, op, to, sname = flds
month, day, year = [int(x) for x in datestr.split("-", 2)]
hour, min, sec, ms = [int(x) fo
Completly untested:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, datetime
user = sys.argv[1]
starttime = None
for l in sys.stdin:
flds = l.strip().split()
datestr, timestr, prog, op, to, sname = flds
month, day, year = [int(x) for x in datestr.split("-", 2)]
hour, min, sec, ms = [int(x) fo
I am similarly not a programmer but am trying to learn python to do
tasks like this. I would read through the regular expressions
tutorial. You could probably easily read in all teh lines of the log
file, and then split them up by " " (spaces)..
If you're right about the lines all being consis
John,
Your comments are very helpful. I will take the datetime stamp as the
way to go. I don't have a need to throw away the time info, it is
You said:
>What do you do if servers are in different
>timezones?
This is all inhouse in a non-daylight savings country and would not be
an issue
You a
Thanks Andreas,
In your first paragraph, you ask about incorrect input. I guess it is
possible, but without that information, my collection of the data is
useless, so I really don't know what I would do with that.
As for the other stuff, I can hack the data in other ways, such as with
VBA and MS
CG wrote:
[snip]
> What I basically want to do is end up with a text file that can be
> easily imported into a database with a format like this (or I guess it
> could be written in a SQL script form that could write directly to a
> database like Mysql):
>
> Connect_Date Connect_Time Disconnect_dat
Am Samstag, den 13.08.2005, 14:01 -0700 schrieb CG:
Well, you have described your problem nicely. One thing that's missing
is how to deal with incorrect input. (For example missing connect or
disconnect messages).
Furthermore, you can now:
a) try to find somebody who writes it for you. How you mo
I am looking for a way to parse a simple log file to get the
information in a format that I can use. I would like to use python,
but I am just beginning to learn how to use it. I am not a programmer,
but have done some simple modifications and revisions of scripts. I am
willing to attempt this o
