<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Thanks to all who replied. At this time I'm going to move forward with the dual interface(pybus, dbus) class and start researching the GLib data formatting. <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""><div class="moz-txt-sig">From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ldo@geek-central.gen.nz"><ldo@geek-central.gen.nz></a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org">dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Subject: Re: The REAL Preferred Python Binding Library </div></pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap=""> ? pydbus: ... ??? - cannot package complex data properly (navit mapping app, D-Bus method set_destination, requires a format of? "(iii)s" > >>> import dbus </pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In dbus it is very easy to package data. I was hoping to be able to do the same in pydbus Thanks for the code below, I think it will help a lot for the longer term GLib research. <blockquote type="cite"><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">m = dbus.lowlevel.MethodCallMessage("com.example", "/", "com.example", "hi") m.append([3, 4, 5], "hi", signature = "(iii)s") m.get_args_list() [dbus.Struct((dbus.Int32(3), dbus.Int32(4), dbus.Int32(5)), signature=None), dbus.String('hi')] </pre></blockquote></pre> <blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;"> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">From: "Thomas Kluyver" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:thomas@kluyver.me.uk"><thomas@kluyver.me.uk></a> To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dbus@lists.freedesktop.org">dbus@lists.freedesktop.org</a> Subject: Re: The REAL Preferred Python Binding Library <blockquote type="cite"><pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">If you're trying to *communicate* with Gnome apps, any D-Bus binding should work. After all, that's the point of having a standard protocol. </pre> </blockquote></pre> </blockquote> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">That's what I would have thought but there are differences between them all. Mind you, the gnome devs seem to like making things obscure :( Thanks once again Dave </pre> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Dave Morgan Senior Consultant, 1001111 Alberta Limited <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dave.morgan@1001111.com">dave.morgan@1001111.com</a> 403 399 2442 </pre> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72"> </pre> </body> </html>