The “horrible thing” in developer Erik Rose’s talk from this year’s PyCon is the Mediawiki syntax, but that’s just a jumping off point for one of the best overviews of data parsing that ...

Network security logs are a ubiquitous record of system runtime states and messages of system activities and events. Parsing logs with regular expressions is the most widely utilized method available ...

Having a parsing interface that just supports parsing a string is probably a premature optimization on the other end of the spectrum. A Little Light Reading My first thought was to look to the source ...