On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Scooter <slbent...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm attempting to reformat an apache log file that was written with a > custom output format. I'm attempting to get it to w3c format using a > python script. The problem I'm having is the field-to-field matching. > In my python code I'm using split with spaces as my delimiter. But it > fails when it reaches the user agent because that field itself > contains spaces. But that user agent is enclosed with double quotes. > So is there a way to split on a certain delimiter but not to split > within quoted words. > > i.e. a line might look like > > 2009-09-29 12:00:00 - GET / "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; > Windows NT 6.0; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC > 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)" http://somehost.com 200 > 1923 1360 31715 - > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
s = '''2009-09-29 12:00:00 - GET / "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; GTB5; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 3.5.21022)" http://somehost.com 200 1923 1360 31715 -''' initial, user_agent, trailing = s.split('"') # Then depending on what you want to do with them... foo = initial.split() + [user_agent] + trailing.split() -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
