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This is the second lucky month that the Empathy icon lies on the top gnome-panel of my desktop. Well it is... let's say ok when compared with Pidgin. I love see Empathy developers add the buddy pounce function too. It was after the fresh F13 installation that I tried to give Empathy a try. It was pre-packaged with the the system (formerly it was Pidgin) and most importantly Open Source is all about Choice.
Empathy, as Pidgin does keeps a log of all the conversations we had via Empathy. Yeah, this can be deactivated also. The chat files of Empathy resides in ~/.local/share/Empathy/logs and I found them to be a little messy. They include all the technical data and other stuff and it makes us hard to find the messages. So I though to get it to a more human friendly and readable format and wrote the following python code. This for me works fine, and if there are any bugs, suggestions to improve, please leave a comment.
#!/usr/bin/python2.6
#
# W.H. Kalpa Pathum <callkalpa@gmail.com>
# 6th August, 2010
#
# empathy_log.py
# This script formats a empathy log file in a more human readable way
# usage : empathy_log <empathy log file>
#
import re
import sys
msg_d = ''
def print_output(message_data):
global msg_d
# print the conversation date
if msg_d != message_data[0]:
msg_d = message_data[0]
print 'Conversation with', message_data[2], 'on', msg_d
print '('+ message_data[1]+ ')', message_data[2], ':', message_data[3]
def main(filename):
f = open(filename, 'r')
# read line by line and extract message details
lines = f.readlines()
for line in lines[3:-1]: # except first three lines and last line
match = re.findall('^<message time=\'(\d+)T([\d:]+)\' [\w\W]+ name=\'([\w\W]+)\' token=[\w\W]+>([\w\W]+)<', line)
if match:
for item in match:
# format msg_d
d=item[0][:4] + '-' + item[0][4:6] + '-' + item[0][6:]
message_data = [d, item[1], item[2], item[3]]
print_output(message_data)
# if the pattern is not found, print the modified line
else:
print re.sub('<[/message][\w\W]*>', '', line),
f.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv[1])
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Or, you could just use the Empathy log viewer :)
ReplyDeleteyep now it has that feature.
ReplyDeleteThis was useful to me, as I wanted to print one of my logs. thanks.
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