Split a log line into its parts

A log line has four parts separated by spaces: date, time, level, and message. The message itself may contain spaces. Given:

line = "2026-09-24 10:15:32 ERROR disk full on /var"

print the level and the message on two lines, as Level: ERROR and Message: disk full on /var.

.split(" ") cuts a string at every space and returns a list of pieces. The trouble is that the message contains spaces too, so a plain split gives you seven pieces. Passing a second argument, maxsplit, tells Python to stop after that many cuts: split(" ", 3) returns exactly four pieces, and the last one keeps the rest of the line intact. You can then unpack the four pieces straight into named variables: date, time, level, message = .... Named variables are much clearer than writing parts[2] and parts[3] everywhere.