An alternate (and, arguably, more elegant) approach to "Parsing with Regex" and "Tuples to Dictionaries" is to use named regex groups and the MatchObject's "gro

An alternate (and, arguably, more elegant) approach to "Parsing with Regex" and "Tuples to Dictionaries" is to use named regex groups and the MatchObject's "groupdict" method like so: logpats = r'(?P<host>\S+) (?P<referrer>\S+) (?P<user>\S+) \[(?P<datetime>.*?)\] '\ r'"(?P<method>\S+) (?P<request>\S+) (?P<proto>\S+)" (?P<status>\S+) '\ r'(?P<bytes>\S+)' logpat = re.compile(logpats) groups = (logpat.match(line) for line in loglines) log = (g.groupdict() for g in groups if g)