On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Joe Python <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to find the top '100' hosts (sorted in descending order of total > requests) like follows: > Is there a fast way to this without scanning the log file many times?
As you encounter a new "host" add it to a dict (or another type of collection), and if encountered again, use that "host" as the key to retrieve the dict entry and increment it's request count. You should only have to read the file once. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
