Argument types in python

[Simon McVittie]

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On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 at 12:21:48 +0100, Janosch Peters wrote:
> sig=dbus.Signature('o')
> cons = dbus.Array( sig )                 #isn't 'cons' of type="ao"?

No, cons is a dbus.Array of unspecified type, containing a
dbus.Signature object.

In dbus-python, 'out' arguments are returned, as usually happens in
Python. In this case you just call:

    interface.ListConnections()

which will return a dbus.Array of dbus.ObjectPath (signature 'ao'), whose
repr() will be something like:

    dbus.Array([dbus.ObjectPath('/foo'), dbus.ObjectPath('/bar')],
               signature='o')

This hopefully also illustrates the correct way to make an empty array of
object-paths, should you ever need one.

    Simon
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