Okay, so I'm making some progress here. This line in my URLCONF will pass the status__exact = E. Problem is, it's hard coded. How do I set it up so that I can pass an arbitrary value as the desired 'status__exact'?
(r'^(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>[a-z]{3})/(?P<day>\w{1,2})/E/$',
'django.views.generic.date_based.archive_day', dict(logs_date_dict,
extra_lookup_kwargs = { 'status__exact' : 'E', })),
