First of all, 'try: ... except: ...' (with no exception specified) is
always a no-no, since it catches all BaseExceptions, which includes ^C
and other stuff which should almost never be caught.
Now the conversion is stricter, and only one conversion is attempted,
and only a ValueEror is caught. It seems reasonable to catch ValueErrors,
since the entries in the journal are not verified, and any erroneous
application might log a field which cannot be converted. The consumer
of events must only check if a field is an instance of bytes and can
otherwise assume that the conversion was performed correctly.
Order of arguments in Reader.__init__ has been changed to match order
in _Reader.__init__.
Conversions have been updated to work under Python 2 and 3.
It seems inevitable that we'll also grow a writing interface,
and then it'll be cumbersome to have a "Journal" for reading,
and a "Writer" for writing.
__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP and __MONOTONIC_TIMESTAMP return ints.
It doesn't make sense to convert to string, just to convert
back to a number later on.
Also try to follow systemd rules for indentation.
Supports Python versions 2.6 through 3.3 (tested on 2.7 and 3.2).
See JournalHandler docstring for usage details.
[zj: - use send() instead of using sendv() directly
- do exception handling like in the logging module
- bumped min version to python2.6, since the module
does not work with python2.5 anyway ]
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek