Python Project: Build a Log Parser CLI (Regex + argparse)
This Python log parser project takes five separate skills you have met one at a time, regular expressions, dataclasses, the Counter, datetime, and argparse, and welds them into a single command line tool you would actually reach for at work. Server logs are where a lot of real debugging starts, and by the end of this post you will have a tool that reads a ten thousand line access log and answers real questions about it in under a second. ... Read More