old_contents: import datetime
  import os.path
  import csv
  from collections import Counter
  
  """
  Construct the file path to a particular day's cirrus logs on stat1002. Uses yesterday if no date is specified.
  """
  def get_filepath(date = None):
    if date is None:
      date = datetime.date.fromordinal(datetime.date.today().toordinal()-1)
    parsed_date = date.strftime("%Y%m%d")
    path = "/a/mw-log/archive/CirrusSearchRequests.log-" + parsed_date + ".gz"
    return(path, str(date))
  
  """
  Write out a counter
  """
  def write_counter(counter, date, file):
    if(os.path.exists(file) == False):
      with open(file, "wb") as tsv_file:
        write_obj = csv.writer(tsv_file, delimiter = "\t")
        write_obj.writerow(["date","variable","value"])
    with open(file, "ab") as tsv_file:
      write_obj = csv.writer(tsv_file, delimiter = "\t")
      for entry in counter:
        write_obj.writerow([str(date), entry, counter[entry]])
  
new_contents: import datetime
  import os.path
  import csv
  from collections import Counter
  
  """
  Construct the file path to a particular day's cirrus logs on stat1002. Uses yesterday if no date is specified.
  """
  def get_filepath(date = None):
    if date is None:
      date = datetime.date.fromordinal(datetime.date.today().toordinal()-1)
    parsed_date = date.strftime("%Y%m%d")
    path = "/a/mw-log/archive/CirrusSearchRequests.log-" + parsed_date + ".gz"
    return(path, str(date))
  
  """
  Write out a counter
  """
  def write_counter(counter, date, file):
    if(os.path.exists(file) == False):
      with open(file, "wb") as tsv_file:
        write_obj = csv.writer(tsv_file, delimiter = "\t")
        write_obj.writerow(["date","variable","value"])
    with open(file, "ab") as tsv_file:
      write_obj = csv.writer(tsv_file, delimiter = "\t")
      for entry in counter:
        write_obj.writerow([str(date), entry, counter[entry]])
  
  """
  Create a date range you can pythonically loop over to backfill datasets.
  """
  def date_range(start_str, end_str):
    start = datetime.datetime.strptime(start_str, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
    end   = datetime.datetime.strptime(end_str, "%Y-%m-%d").date()
    step = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    result = []
    while start <= end:
        result.append(start)
        start += step
    return result
  
subject: add date range function to misc