Extracting multiple strings using Pythons's regular expression

Question

I have a log file having the following output and I have shortened it as it goes to thousands of lines:

Time = 1

smoothSolver:  Solving for Ux, Initial residual         


        

Answer 1

When there is no 'Time' or 'cumulative' in this line, there is no need to overwrite that variable. You can do this:

...
with open(logFile, 'r') as logfile_read:
for line in logfile_read:
    line = line.rstrip()
    if 'Time' in line:
        iteration_time = re.findall(r'^Time = ([0-9]+)', line)
        print iteration_time
    if 'cumulative' in line:
        contCumulative_0 = re.search(r'cumulative = ((\d|.)+)', line)
        if contCumulative_0:
            cumvalue = contCumulative_0.groups(1)
            contCumulative_0_out.write('\n'.join(cumvalue))
...