[portland] Advice for someone wanting to get into Python

Francis Storr fstorr at gmail.com
Sat Jun 30 16:52:20 CEST 2012


Thanks again for all the replies and encouragement - yay friendly mailing list :) I'm happily working through one of the books and am going to try to tackle this Udacity course http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/CourseRev/apr2012 

Hopefully I'll see some of you at next month's hack day.

Thanks again

Francis

On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:14 AM, skeeter murphy wrote:

> Not a  python programming solution, though python is used in it, Splunk
> might be the quickest way to search through logs and for doing analysis on
> them. http://www.splunk.com/ It's free up to a certain amount of log data.
> 
> fyi: I don't work for splunk, I just use splunk a lot and it is awesome.
> 
> skeeter
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Dan Young <danielmyoung at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Francis Storr <fstorr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I also occasionally have to trawl through search logs and they generally
>> need
>>> a good amount of cleaning up before I can start to analyze them. I could
>> try to
>>> use a mixture of grep and sed to do that, but why not try something else
>> that's
>>> probably easier? I'm also interested in what tools there might be to
>> help with
>>> analysis of that data.
>> 
>> This has some neat, practical (AKA not a Fibonacci sequence)
>> demonstrations of Python generators for log parsing:
>> http://www.dabeaz.com/generators/
>> 
>> --
>> Dan Young
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