log file parsing python

Question

I have a log file with arbitrary number of lines. All I need is to extract is one line of data from the log file which starts with a string “Total”. I do not want any other

Answer 1

theFile = open('thefile.txt','r')
FILE = theFile.readlines()
theFile.close()
printList = []
for line in FILE:
    if ('TestName' in line) or ('Totals' in line):
         # here you may want to do some splitting/concatenation/formatting to your string
         printList.append(line)

for item in printList:
    print item    # or write it to another file... or whatever