#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
USAGE:

apache_log_parser_split.py some_log_file

This script takes one command line argument: the name of a log file
to parse.  It then parses the log file and generates a report which 
associates remote hosts with number of bytes transferred to them.
"""

import sys

def dictify_logline(line):
    '''return a dictionary of the pertinent pieces of an apache combined log file

    Currently, the only fields we are interested in are remote host and bytes sent,
    but we are putting status in there just for good measure.
    '''
    split_line = line.split()
    return {'remote_host': split_line[0], 
            'status': split_line[8],
            'bytes_sent': split_line[9],
    }

def generate_log_report(logfile):
    '''return a dictionary of format remote_host=>[list of bytes sent]
    
    This function takes a file object, iterates through all the lines in the file,
    and generates a report of the number of bytes transferred to each remote host
    for each hit on the webserver.
    '''
    report_dict = {}
    for line in logfile:
        line_dict = dictify_logline(line)
        print line_dict
        try:
            bytes_sent = int(line_dict['bytes_sent'])
        except ValueError:
            ##totally disregard anything we don't understand
            continue
        report_dict.setdefault(line_dict['remote_host'], []).append(bytes_sent)
    return report_dict


if __name__ == "__main__":
    if not len(sys.argv) > 1:
        print __doc__
        sys.exit(1)
    infile_name = sys.argv[1]
    try:
        infile = open(infile_name, 'r')
    except IOError:
        print "You must specify a valid file to parse"
        print __doc__
        sys.exit(1)
    log_report = generate_log_report(infile)
    print log_report
    infile.close()
