I have a large text file on the web that I am using requests to obtain and parse data from. The text file begins each line with a format like [Mon Oct 10 08:58:26 2022]. How can I get the latest 7 days or convert only the datetime to an object or string for storing and parsing later? I simply want to extract the timestamps from the log and print them

CodePudding user response：

You can use TimedRotatingFileHandler for daily or 7-days logs.

read more about timed rotating file handler here

and

read more about extracting timestamps from files

CodePudding user response：

Can you tell me if this snippet solves your problem?

from datetime import datetime

log_line = "[Sun Oct 09 06:14:26 2022] Wiladoc is browsing your wares."
_datetime = log_line[1:25]
_datetime_strp = datetime.strptime(_datetime, '%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y')

print(_datetime)
print(_datetime_strp)