#! /usr/bin/python

import re
import sys
import time

def f5(seq, idfun=None):
    # order preserving
    if idfun is None:
        def idfun(x): return x
    seen = {}
    result = []
    for item in seq:
        marker = idfun(item)
        if marker in seen: continue
        seen[marker] = 1
        result.append(item)
    return result

file1 = r"/home/python/extract_input"
rawstr = r"""(?P<date>\w{3,5}\s\d{2}?)\s\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\s(?P<rest>.*?$)"""
# Open The File

InputFile = open(file1, "r")
OutputFile = open("extract_output.txt","w")

OutputFile.write(time.asctime()+"\n")

# Create Dict based on (DATE,MESSAGE) as key
dict = {}
rxinput = re.compile(rawstr)
for line in InputFile:
        for input in rxinput.finditer(line):
                DATE = (input.group(1))
                MESSAGE = (input.group(2))
                if (DATE,MESSAGE) in dict.keys():
                        dict[(DATE,MESSAGE)][0]+=1
                        print dict[(DATE,MESSAGE)][0]
                        break
                else:
                        dict[(DATE,MESSAGE)]=[1,MESSAGE]

# Output Test
count=1
for x in dict.keys():
        print count,' ',x,' --> ',dict[x][0]
        count+=1
print ""


InputFile.close()
OutputFile.close()

Traceback (most recent call last):
  Line 24, in <module>
    InputFile = open(file1, "r")
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/python/extract_input'