Parsing a log file

[googleboy]

I am similarly not a programmer but am trying to learn python to do
tasks like this.   I would read through the regular expressions
tutorial.  You could probably easily read in all teh lines of the log
file,  and then split them up by " " (spaces)..

If you're right about the lines all being consistent, that should
easily handle each line.

>From there you could amost certainly drop off the trailling
milliseconds on the timestamps and do the simple data manipulation
you'd like.

here are a couple of links:

http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/
http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html

HTH

googleboy