<html> <head> <style> P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body>Thanks for that Simon, Greatly appreciate the help,   Have you done much work with the bluez dbus stuff at all?   I'm still a little lost as to how your solution fits into my script, would you mind taking a look at this code? basically 'result2' is the byte array that is returned.   #!/usr/bin/python import dbus import array bus = dbus.SystemBus() obj = bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/org/bluez') obj = bus.get_object('org.bluez', '/org/bluez/hci0') adapter = dbus.Interface(obj, 'org.bluez.Adapter') # Search For Obex Push Protocol print('Start Scan...') result = adapter.GetRemoteServiceHandles('00:17:B0:A0:E7:09', 'opp') result2 = adapter.GetRemoteServiceRecord('00:17:B0:A0:E7:09', result[0]) print('Done Scanning.')   How would i integrate your suggested solution into this?   Thanks again Simon, *buys him a beer.   Rob <HR id=stopSpelling> > Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:12:09 +0100 > From: simon.mcvittie@collabora.co.uk > To: dbus@lists.freedesktop.org > Subject: Re: Array{byte} > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 at 10:39:04 +0000, Robert Rawlins wrote: > > I've got a function from the dbus bluez api that returns a byte array but i'm a little lost as to how I can extract any useful information from it :-D I'm new to both dbus and python but picking thing up quite nicely. > > If you're willing to depend on dbus-python >= 0.80 (recommended): > > >>> bytearray = bluez_object.MyMethod(byte_arrays=True) > >>> bytearray > dbus.ByteArray('\x01\x02\x03') > >>> issubclass(dbus.ByteArray, str) > True > > See http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html#return-values-and-the-byte-arrays-and-utf8-strings-options for details. > > If you badly need to be backwards compatible: > > >>> list_of_bytes = bluez_object.MyMethod() > >>> list_of_bytes > dbus.Array([dbus.Byte(1), dbus.Byte(2), dbus.Byte(3)], signature='y') > >>> stringified = ''.join(map(chr, list_of_bytes)) > >>> stringified > '\x01\x02\x03' > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: OpenPGP key: http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2003/contact/ or pgp.net > > iD8DBQFGKMo5WSc8zVUw7HYRAo82AJ9Qms1WahNm/xAKMFtSpmvM1U04KwCgkMx1 > ORIaqAc6TwzLSwWq+l0wHjY= > =eV2a > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > dbus mailing list > dbus@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dbus <hr />Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. <a href='http://ideas.live.co.uk/ProgramPage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d&pageId=0' target='_new'>Windows Live Mail.</a></body> </html>