Re: parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2010-11-11 Thread Simon Mullis
This was a long time ago But just in case anyone googling ever has the same question, this is what I did (last year). The user just needs to supply a strftime formatted string, such as "%A, %e %b %h:%M" and this Class figures out the regex to use on the log entries... class RegexBuilder(object

Re: parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2009-02-05 Thread Simon Mullis
That, my friend, is ingenious...! Thankyou SM 2009/2/3 andrew cooke > > > ValueError: unconverted data remains: this is the remainder of the log > > > > line > > > that I do not care about > > you could catch the ValueError and split at the ':' in the .args > attribute to find the extra data.

Re: parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2009-02-03 Thread andrew cooke
> > ValueError: unconverted data remains:  this is the remainder of the log   > > line > > that I do not care about you could catch the ValueError and split at the ':' in the .args attribute to find the extra data. you could then find the extra data in the original string, use the index to remove

Re: parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2009-02-03 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:52:07 -0200, Simon Mullis escribió: I'm writing a script to help with analyzing log files timestamps and have a very specific question on which I'm momentarily stumped I'd like the script to support multiple log file types, so allow a strftime format to be pas

Re: parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2009-02-03 Thread MRAB
Simon Mullis wrote: > Hi All > > I'm writing a script to help with analyzing log files timestamps and > have a very specific question on which I'm momentarily stumped > > I'd like the script to support multiple log file types, so allow a > strftime format to be passed in as a cli switch (defau

parse date/time from a log entry with only strftime (and no regexen)

2009-02-03 Thread Simon Mullis
Hi All I'm writing a script to help with analyzing log files timestamps and have a very specific question on which I'm momentarily stumped I'd like the script to support multiple log file types, so allow a strftime format to be passed in as a cli switch (default is %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S). When i