On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanel...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>I want to extract 24 hrs of data based timestamps like this: >>>> >>>> [04/Nov/2009:04:02:10 +0000] >>> >>> OK It looks like you could use a regex to extract the first >>> thing you find between square brackets. Then convert that to a time. >> >> I'm currently thinking I can just use a string comparison after the >> first entry for the day - that saves date arithmetic.
As long as the times are all in the same time zone. >> How do I handle concurrency? I have 6 log files which I need to turn >> into one time-sequenced log. >> >> I guess I need to switch between each log depending on whether the >> next entry is the next chronological entry between all six. Then on a >> per line basis I can also reject it if it matches the stuff I want to >> throw out, and substitute it if I need to, then write out to the new >> file. If you create iterators from the files that yield (timestamp, entry) pairs, you can merge the iterators using one of these recipes: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/491285/ http://code.activestate.com/recipes/535160/ Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor