Parsing apache log files

Question

I just started learning Python and would like to read an Apache log file and put parts of each line into different lists.

line from the file

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Answer 1

I have created a python library which does just that: apache-log-parser.

>>> import apache_log_parser
 >>> line_parser = apache_log_parser.make_parser("%h <<%P>> %t %Dus \"%r\" %>s %b  \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" %l %u")
>>> log_line_data = line_parser('127.0.0.1 <<6113>> [16/Aug/2013:15:45:34 +0000] 1966093us "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 3478  "https://example.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18)" - -')
>>> pprint(log_line_data)
{'pid': '6113',
 'remote_host': '127.0.0.1',
 'remote_logname': '-',
 'remote_user': '',
 'request_first_line': 'GET / HTTP/1.1',
 'request_header_referer': 'https://example.com/',
 'request_header_user_agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18)',
 'response_bytes_clf': '3478',
 'status': '200',
 'time_received': '[16/Aug/2013:15:45:34 +0000]',
 'time_us': '1966093'}