Python - parsing nested information and provide it in proper format from log file

[jt11380 at gmail.com]

On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 8:11:59 AM UTC-5, Peter Otten wrote:
> Jay T wrote:
> 
> >  have some log file which has nested data which i want to filter and
> >  provide specific for student with total counts
> > 
> > Here is my log file sample:
> > Student name is ABC
> > Student age is 12
> > student was late
> > student was late
> > student was late
> > Student name is DEF
> > student age is 13
> > student was late
> > student was late
> > 
> > i want to parse and show data as Student name, student age , number of
> > counts how many times student was late e:g Name Age TotalCount
> > ABC 12   3
> > DEF 13    2
> > 
> > Please help me with solution that will be really grateful.
> 
> What have you tried? Please show us some code.
> 
> The basic idea would be to iterate over the lines and split the current line 
> into words. 
> 
> If the second word is "name" and it's not the first iteration print the 
> student's name, age, and was_late count. Then set the name variable to the 
> new name and reset age and was_late to 0. To detect the first iteration you 
> can set 
> 
> name = None
> 
> before you enter the loop and then check for that value before printing:
> 
> if name is not None:
>     ... # print student data
> 
> If the second word is "age" convert the 4th word to integer and set the age 
> variable.
> 
> If the second word is "was" increment the was_late counter.
> 
> Remember that when the loop ends and the file was not empty you have one 
> more student's data to print.

I tried to implent below code and got stucked how to do nested loop to count instead doing another logic and parsing:

import re
def GetName(input_string):
                  myName=input_string.split()
                  myName1= myName[1]
                  return myName1
def GetAge(input_string):
                  myAge=input_string.split()
                  myAge1= myAge[2]
                  return myAge1
 
                  
        
                     
file = open('mylogfile')
log_data = file.readlines()
print 'entered'
for eachline in log_data:
           input_string = eachline
           if 'name' in input_string:
                    sometextval = GetName(input_string)
                    print "name", sometextval
           if 'Age' in input_string:
                     sometextval2 = GetAge(input_string)
                     print "Age", sometextval2

Now get stuck to get count for total_late time as it is part of name, age so how to write logic which counts as a part of group.

any help will be grateful.

-J