[Tutor] How to parse and extract data from a log file?

[Tim Finley]

I'm a newbie to programming and am trying to learn Python.  Maybe I'm wrong, 
but I thought a practical way of learning it would be to create a script.  I 
want to automate the gathering of mailbox statistics for users in a post 
office.  There are two lines containing this information for each user.  I 
want to find the two lines for each user and place the information in a 
different file.  I can't figure out how to find the information I'm after.  
Can you provide me an example or refer me to some place that has it?

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