Antonio de la Fuente wrote:
Hi everybody,
This is my first post here. I have started learning python and I am new to
programing, just some bash scripting, no much.
Thank you for the kind support and help that you provide in this list.
This is my problem: I've got a log file that is filling up very quickly, this
log file is made of blocks separated by a blank line, inside these blocks there
is a line "foo", I want to discard blocks with that line inside it, and create a
new log file, without those blocks, that will reduce drastically the size of the
log file.
The log file is gziped, so I am going to use gzip module, and I am going to pass
the log file as an argument, so sys module is required as well.
I will read lines from file, with the 'for loop', and then I will check them for
'foo' matches with a 'while loop', if matches I (somehow) re-initialise the
list, and if there is no matches for foo, I will append line to the list. When I
get to a blank line (end of block), write myList to an external file. And start
with another line.
I am stuck with defining 'blank line', I don't manage to get throught the while
loop, any hint here I will really appreciate it.
I don't expect the solution, as I think this is a great exercise to get wet
with python, but if anyone thinks that this is the wrong way of solving the
problem, please let me know.
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import gzip
myList = []
# At the moment not bother with argument part as I am testing it with a
# testing log file
#fileIn = gzip.open(sys.argv[1])
fileIn = gzip.open('big_log_file.gz', 'r')
fileOut = open('outputFile', 'a')
for line in fileIn:
while line != 'blank_line':
if line == 'foo':
Somehow re-initialise myList
break
else:
myList.append(line)
fileOut.writelines(myList)
Observations:
0 - The other responses did not understand your desire to drop any
paragraph containing 'foo'.
1 - The while loop will run forever, as it keeps processing the same line.
2 - In your sample log file the line with 'foo' starts with a tab. line
== 'foo' will always be false.
3 - Is the first line in the file Tue Nov 17 16:11:47 GMT 2009 or blank?
4 - Is the last line blank?
Better logic:
# open files
paragraph = []
keep = True
for line in fileIn:
if line.isspace(): # end of paragraph
if keep:
outFile.writelines(paragraph)
paragraph = []
keep = True
else:
if keep:
if line == '\tfoo':
keep = False
else:
paragraph.append(line)
# anticipating last line not blank, write last paragraph
if keep:
outFile.writelines(paragraph)
# use shutil to rename
--
Bob Gailer
Chapel Hill NC
919-636-4239
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