[systemd-devel] python - reading the journal

[David Strauss]

I second the interest in committing this to the existing Python
support once polished.

On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
<zbyszek at in.waw.pl> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:18:28PM +0000, Steven Hiscocks wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been developing a python module for accessing the journal,
>> using the journal API. (https://github.com/kwirk/pyjournalctl)
> Great! Have you thought about including it in the systemd repo,
> once interface nad implementation is stabilized?
>
>> One issue I've had is with 'sd_journal_seek_monotonic_usec'. When
>> called, followed by call to 'sd_journal_next', I end up at the start
>> of the journal.
>> If I set a match for "_BOOT_ID" , before (or after) the call to
>> 'sd_journal_seek_monotonic_usec' (with same "_BOOT_ID"), it then
>> behaves as I would expect and returns the closest log entry to the
>> monotonic time stamp.
>>
>> I was wondering if this is this the intended behaviour, or is this a bug?
> Looking at the docs, it seems OK. Without _BOOT_ID the behaviour
> is unspecified.
>
> Some comments about the API:
>>>> journal.add_match("PRIORITY", "5")
> Why not journal.add_match(PRIORITY="5") ?
>
> Likewise journal.add_matches({"PRIORITY": "5", "_PID": "1"})
> could be written as journal.add_matches(PRIORITY=5, _PID=1).
> This would mirror the journal API which is part of the python-systemd
> module.
>
> Note: systemd.journal already has LOG_EMERG and friends (imported
> from syslog), so there's no need to use plain numbers.
>
> Your object-oriented approach, python 2/3 compatiblity, GIL releasing
> support are great. I would definitely want to pull this into the
> python-systemd.
>
> Zbyszek



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