RE: systemd unit works well but log ging is blob by

[HenrySqwidbern]

All,

I'm using systemd (ubuntu 16.04 LTS, conda py 2.7.15) to control lendingbot.py as a service, that seems to work dandy, loans get made, things seem stable, but I'm having blobby log output in journalctl.
I used the sample unit file snipper over on the readthedocs.io page

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hank@thesqwid:~$ sudo systemctl status bfx_lendbot.service
● bfx_lendbot.service - BFX_Lendbot Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/bfx_lendbot.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2018-11-25 20:43:16 PST; 1 day 2h ago
Main PID: 2392 (python2.7)
CGroup: /system.slice/bfx_lendbot.service
└─2392 /home/hank/miniconda2/envs/bfx_lendbot/bin/python2.7 -u /home/hank/miniconda2/envs/bfx_lendbot/bin/poloniexlendingbot/lendingbot.py

Nov 26 20:42:02 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [172B blob data]
Nov 26 20:42:32 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [148B blob data]
Nov 26 20:42:58 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [172B blob data]
Nov 26 20:43:28 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [148B blob data]
Nov 26 21:50:16 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [2.0K blob data]
Nov 26 22:04:31 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [575B blob data]
Nov 26 22:04:31 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [91B blob data]
Nov 26 22:05:12 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [152B blob data]
Nov 26 22:05:12 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [228B blob data]
Nov 26 23:15:48 thesqwid python2.7[2392]: [2.0K blob data]
hank@thesqwid:~$
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if run manually via console and not via systemd it has sane output.
I tried to mod unit file to include '> some_writeable.log' but systemd spazzed out.
izit becoz i put unit in "/etc/systemd/..." rather than "/lib/systemd/..."? shouldn't matter.
saw the "python -u" for unbuffered output suggested somewhere, no good, same result.
should it be put in a script, maybe with conda env trickery? it doesn't seem like that kinda problem at all.
it would be nice if it could write pretty log output to journalctl so I can control the bot
based on matched strings in that log output.
thank you for any suggestions.

Thanks,
Hank