I'm very new to python (about a couple days now) and as part of my internship, my supervisor wanted me to learn python and write something that will parse webserver logs files and give a list of IPs and the requested URL. Seeing as this needs to be a reflection of my own work I want to write all of the program but I needed some direction. I've been moving up step by step, first using regular expressions to find IP addresses and URLs within a line of a log file and list them. Now I'm at a point where I'll need to differentiate between lines of the log file and generate a long list of IP and corresponding URL. Like I said, I'm using regular expressions to distinguish IPs and URLs within a line and (from the way my supervisor is pointing me) I'll need to utilize the built in functions file() and readlines() along with the regular expressions to be able to write the final program. Basically, I'm looking for some direction on how to write the program I've been instructed to write utilizing regular expressions and by opening the file within python using open() or file(). I don't have any programming experience and the webserver log files are from an Apache HTTP server and are therefore in that format.
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