Reading any NT System log entries

Mark Hammond MarkH at ActiveState.com
Tue Dec 4 23:30:49 EST 2001


Jason Byars wrote:

> Hi, I'm in a bit of a bind reading System log print events.  99% of the
> events read fine with win32evtlogutil.SafeFormatMessage(ev_obj, logtype).
> But, every now and then I get and entry with an ascii character above 128
> and SafeFormatMessage throws an error.  Is there some way to clean up those
> entry objects so they can be read?  Thanks!
> 

Can you give details of exactly what fails, or what application is 
inserting unicode objects?  Post the complete traceback when using 
win32evtlogutil.FeedEventLogRecords.

Mark.




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