- Load N lines or all lines
- search and ignore lines with certain strings
- parse lines and extract what you want
https://pypi.org/project/parse-log/
import tail
path_to_file = 'path/to/file/thefile.log'
number_of_lines = 3
#return 3 lines
tail.lines(path_to_file, number_of_lines)
#return all lines with the given search string
#or 'search1, search2'
tail.search_all(path_to_file, 'Search_String')
#return all lines with the given search string
#or 'search1, search2' also 'ignore1, ignore2' and so on
tail.isearch_all(path_to_file, 'Search_String', 'Ignore_String')
#search through all lines contains certain string condition
#or 'search1, search2' also 'ignore1, ignore2' and so on
tail.search_lines(path_to_file, "search", "ignore_string", number_of_lines)
#search through all lines and ignore lines that contains certain stuff
#or 'search1, search2' also 'ignore1, ignore2' and so on
tail.isearch_lines(path_to_file, 'Search_String', 'Ignore_string', number_of_lines)
#return the last line based on the search condition
#or 'search1, search2'
tail.search_last_line(path_to_file, 'Search_String')
#return last line based on search and ignore conditions
#or 'search1, search2' also 'ignore1, ignore2' and so on
tail.isearch_last_line(path_to_file, 'Search_String', 'Ignore_String')
#parse line by line
lines = tail.lines(path_to_file, number_of_lines)
[tail.parse_line(lines, "begin_delimiter", "end_delimiter") for line in lines]