编辑文本文件以删除特定字符之前的所有内容

Question

So I'm creating a fake chat generator, I've gotten chatlogs of Twitch streams to make a massive chatlog text file. However they're formatted like this,

[2017-10-14 05:27:17 UTC] beboh13: is this guy good

Is there a way to make a Python script to edit every line to remove the 4th space, so the message above would turn into this?

is this guy good

Answer 1

Okay so I solved my problem, you don't actually have to use Python, I just got my text editor, did CTRL+H to bring up the replace menu, made sure that the special command thingys were on. (The button was a picture of .* ) Then did .*UTC] .*: to replace with nothing.

Answer 2

You can change your logfile to a csv format and do the following

In [3]: import csv

In [3]: with open('twitch.csv','r') as file:
    reado = csv.reader(file, delimiter= ' ') 
    #make sure that the delimiter in the file is a space
    for row in reado:
        print(' '.join(row[4:]))