logs was: Re: converting from perl: variable sized unpack

[Roman Suzi]

On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Eric Hagemann wrote:

>I have a lot of code to parse logs as well --  neat trick (at least I think
>it neat !)
>to overcome this "problem"  is
>
>name_of_field0 = 0
>name_of_field1 = 1
>name_of_field2 = 2
>.
>f = line.split()
>.
>
>then access the elements as
>foo = f[name_of_field1]
>
>in my applications I can use the len(f) to determine the type of line I am
>parsing (by its length)
>
>This way you get variable length parsing as well as "named" arguments

O, yes! I do it even more interestingly:

I have a separate module for description of log structure and
have a special object with short name, describing log struct:

# logs.py

class ml(Log):
  name_of_field0 = 0
  name_of_field1 = 1
  name_of_field2 = 2

Then I can use:

from logs import *
rec = split(line)
dosomething(rec[ml.name_of_field0], ...)

And I plan to add something useful to Log so I can do it simpler:

rec = ml(line)
dosomething(rec.name_of_field0, ...)

But am not sure if it is needed yet.

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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