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+import traceback as _traceback
+import os as _os
+from syslog import (LOG_EMERG, LOG_ALERT, LOG_CRIT, LOG_ERR,
+                    LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG)
+from ._journal import sendv, stream_fd
+
+def _make_line(field, value):
+    if isinstance(value, bytes):
+        return field.encode('utf-8') + b'=' + value
+    else:
+        return field + '=' + value
+
+def send(MESSAGE, MESSAGE_ID=None,
+         CODE_FILE=None, CODE_LINE=None, CODE_FUNC=None,
+         **kwargs):
+    r"""Send a message to journald.
+
+    >>> journal.send('Hello world')
+    >>> journal.send('Hello, again, world', FIELD2='Greetings!')
+    >>> journal.send('Binary message', BINARY=b'\xde\xad\xbe\xef')
+
+    Value of the MESSAGE argument will be used for the MESSAGE= field.
+
+    MESSAGE_ID can be given to uniquely identify the type of message.
+
+    Other parts of the message can be specified as keyword arguments.
+
+    Both MESSAGE and MESSAGE_ID, if present, must be strings, and will
+    be sent as UTF-8 to journal. Other arguments can be bytes, in
+    which case they will be sent as-is to journal.
+
+    CODE_LINE, CODE_FILE, and CODE_FUNC can be specified to identify
+    the caller. Unless at least on of the three is given, values are
+    extracted from the stack frame of the caller of send(). CODE_FILE
+    and CODE_FUNC must be strings, CODE_LINE must be an integer.
+
+    Other useful fields include PRIORITY, SYSLOG_FACILITY,
+    SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER, SYSLOG_PID.
+    """
+
+    args = ['MESSAGE=' + MESSAGE]
+
+    if MESSAGE_ID is not None:
+        args.append('MESSAGE_ID=' + MESSAGE_ID)
+
+    if CODE_LINE == CODE_FILE == CODE_FUNC == None:
+        CODE_FILE, CODE_LINE, CODE_FUNC = \
+            _traceback.extract_stack(limit=2)[0][:3]
+    if CODE_FILE is not None:
+        args.append('CODE_FILE=' + CODE_FILE)
+    if CODE_LINE is not None:
+        args.append('CODE_LINE={:d}'.format(CODE_LINE))
+    if CODE_FUNC is not None:
+        args.append('CODE_FUNC=' + CODE_FUNC)
+
+    args.extend(_make_line(key, val) for key, val in kwargs.items())
+    return sendv(*args)
+
+def stream(identifier, priority=LOG_DEBUG, level_prefix=False):
+    r"""Return a file object wrapping a stream to journal.
+
+    Log messages written to this file as simple newline sepearted
+    text strings are written to the journal.
+
+    The file will be line buffered, so messages are actually sent
+    after a newline character is written.
+
+    >>> stream = journal.stream('myapp')
+    >>> stream
+    <open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w' at 0x...>
+    >>> stream.write('message...\n')
+
+    will produce the following message in the journal:
+
+    PRIORITY=7
+    SYSLOG_IDENTIFIER=myapp
+    MESSAGE=message...
+
+    Using the interface with print might be more convinient:
+
+    >>> from __future__ import print_function
+    >>> print('message...', file=stream)
+
+    priority is the syslog priority, one of LOG_EMERG, LOG_ALERT,
+    LOG_CRIT, LOG_ERR, LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO, LOG_DEBUG.
+
+    level_prefix is a boolean. If true, kernel-style log priority
+    level prefixes (such as '<1>') are interpreted. See sd-daemon(3)
+    for more information.
+    """
+
+    fd = stream_fd(identifier, priority, level_prefix)
+    return _os.fdopen(fd, 'w', 1)