On 12/24/18 2:14 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 24/12/2018 05:25, Asokan Pichai wrote: > >> That said, sometimes text processing at the shell can precede or even >> replace some of these. Of course that assumes Unix/Linux OS.
> In fact for most log file analysis I still use [ng]awk. > Its hard to beat the simplicity of regex based event > handling for slicing text files. Sure... there's nothing wrong with using "the appropriate tool for the job" rather than making everything look like a Python problem. There's Perl, too... the ultimate log analysis toolkit. If only I could read what I wrote a week later :) _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor