parameter matching in python (client side)

[Simon McVittie]

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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 at 15:23:52 +0200, Vincent Génieux wrote:
> I would like to make name my parameters when calling the remote 
> function, I a trying to do this:
> remote.func3(param1="myStr1", param2=2, param3="myStr3")

You can't. D-Bus only supports positional parameters.

If you want a "named parameters" style on D-Bus, you'd have to use a dict.
Specifications often use "a{sv}" or "a{ss}" for extensible named
parameters - for instance, freedesktop.org notifications
(http://www.galago-project.org/specs/notification/0.9/x408.html#command-notify)
use an a{sv} for the "hints" parameter.

D-Bus also doesn't support optional parameters, so naming the parameters
in Python isn't very useful.

	Simon
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