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> Aiui apache log format uses space as delimiter, encapsulates strings in
> '"' characters, and uses '-' as an empty field.

Specifying the field delimiter as a space, you might be able to use
the csv module to read these. I haven't done any Apache log file work
since long before the csv module was available, but it just might
work.

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