-one has to specify python2 in arch as python3 is the default.
now when following the piwik docs (as i understand them and including small caveat above) and running “python2 /usr/share/webapps/piwik/misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py --url=http://localhost access.log --idsite=1 --recorders=2 --enable-bots”
i get
“Fatal error: couldn’t open the configuration file, required to get the authentication token”.
oh yeah, piwik? what configuration file? why couldn’t you read it? are you some manner of sphinx? 
so, poking around in piwik’s files i see that i might could just enter the auth token as a param on the command but as i don’t know where i could find that i add “–login username_example” and “–password pass_ex”
after escaping the special characters in my pass i get a python shell cursor. hmmm…
would someone mind telling me how to get the logs imported please? thanks