README.md

Module 070: Milestone Project: Log File Analyzer

• Phase: 7. Modules, Stdlib & Testing
• Duration: 3 hours
• Milestone: Yes

Learning Objectives

• Build a complete CLI tool from scratch
• Parse structured and unstructured log files
• Filter log entries by date range and severity
• Use regular expressions to extract patterns
• Export summary results to formatted output
• Practice all Phase 7 topics (JSON, context managers, modules, stdlib, regex, logging)

Topics Covered

• Reading and parsing log files line by line
• Extracting timestamp, level, and message fields with regex
• Counting log entries by severity level
• Filtering entries by date range
• Displaying summary statistics
• Identifying error patterns (IPs, exception types, etc.) with regex
• Exporting results to JSON and text
• sys.argv for CLI argument parsing

Project Structure

module-070-mini-project-log-analyzer/
  README.md
  notebook.ipynb
  exercises.md
  solutions.md
  solutions.py
  quiz.md
  project/
    README.md
    starter_code.py
    solution/
      log_analyzer.py

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