Regular expression in Python
The regexp in Python have matching operations similar to those found in Perl.
Log - Apache Common Log Format
'^(\S+) (\S+) (\S+) \[([\w:/]+\s[+\-]\d{4})\] "(\S+) (\S+)\s*(\S*)" (\d{3}) (\S+)'
127.0.0.1 - - [24/Jul/1973:08:32:01 -0400] "GET /images/gerardnico.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 2564