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 consistent, that should easily handle each line. >From there you could amost certainly drop off the trailling milliseconds on the timestamps and do the simple data manipulation you'd like. here are a couple of links: http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html HTH googleboy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list