title: Parsing text files using Python
body: <p>I am very new to Python and am looking to use it to parse a text file. The file has between 250-300 lines of the following format:</p>
  
  <pre><code>---- Mark Grey (mark.grey@gmail.com) changed status from Busy to Available @ 14/07/2010 16:32:36 ----
  ----  Silvia Pablo (spablo@gmail.com) became Available @ 14/07/2010 16:32:39 ----
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need to store the following information into another file (excel or text) for all the entries from this file</p>
  
  <pre><code>UserName/ID  Previous Status New Status Date Time
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So my result file should look like this for the above entried</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mark Grey/mark.grey@gmail.com  Busy Available 14/07/2010 16:32:36
  Silvia Pablo/spablo@gmail.com  NaN  Available 14/07/2010 16:32:39
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be really appreciated</p>