Problem getting DBus service list

[John (J5) Palmieri]

Bindings have changed quite a bit in FC4.  Take a look at the example
program in CVS or the latest release tarball.  Sorry I was late in
seeing this but I have been away for a week and a half.

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 11:49 -0400, Ricky Hussmann wrote:
> I'm trying to use the DBus Skype API to do some work with Skype.  
> However, the system bus won't respond to the get_service method. Here's  
> the code and the output:
> 
> import dbus, sys
> 
> remote_bus = dbus.SystemBus()
> system_service_list =  
> remote_bus.get_service('org.freedesktop.DBus').get_object('/org/ 
> freedesktop/DBus', 'org.freedesktop.DBus').ListServices()
> 
> However, every time I run this code I get the following error:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "testSkype.py", line 6, in ?
>      system_service_list =  
> remote_bus.get_service('org.freedesktop.DBus').get_object('/org/ 
> freedesktop/DBus', 'org.freedesktop.DBus').ListServices()
> AttributeError: SystemBus instance has no attribute 'get_service'
> 
> I'm using Fedora Core 4. I've tried this on another server I have  
> access to running Fedora Core 3, and it makes it well past this  
> section. Does FC4 run a newer version of DBus with a different API? If  
> so, is the API documented anywhere?
> 
> Ricky Hussmann
> Associate Engineering Scientist
> West Virginia Virtual Environments Lab
> Morgantown, WV

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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>