Converting log file to json?

Question

I have the below log file in the following format. I need to convert the log file into json file using python. How can it be made?

[2015-07-13 00:03:05,976] hostna

Answer 1

Import pythons json library:

import json

Read in the file as a string and get everything after the 'Response:' substring:

with open("logfile", "r") as log_file:
    log_string = log_file.read()
response_string = log_string.split("Response:")[1].strip()

Get a python object from response_string:

response_obj = json.loads(response_string)

If you need to, write that object out to a file after doing whatever you need with it:

with open("outfile", "w") as out_file:
    out_file.write(json.dumps(response_obj))