#!/usr/bin/env python3 import re import json import sys with open(sys.argv[1],'rt') as infile: data = infile.readlines() kv_pat = re.compile('(?P[^= ]+)=(?P"[^"]+"|\S+)') log=[] for line in data: line_dict={} line = line.strip() matches=kv_pat.findall(line) for match in matches: line_dict[match[0]] = match[1].strip('"') log.append(line_dict) print(json.dumps(log)) # with open('log.json','wt') as outfile: # json.dump(log,outfile)