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Overview

Python-tdbus is a simple ("trivial") python interface for D-BUS. It builds directly on top of libdbus and has no other dependencies. Some benefits of python-tdbus with respect to the standard dbus-python [1]_ Python bindings:

• The code is extremely simple. Python-tdbus is < 2.000 lines of code (C and Python), while dbus-python contains > 15.000 lines of code.
• Event loop integration is not required for sending and receiving signals (if you can afford to block).
• Includes `gevent' [2]_ event loop integration.
• Event loop integration can be achieved in Python code rather than in C.
• Uses native Python types for method and signal arguments, driven by a simple format string.
• Provides a more "correct" object model (IMHO) where there's separate Dispatcher and Connection objects, instead of putting dispatching functionality into the connection object.

Building and Installing

$ python setup.py build

python setup.py install

or using pip

$ pip install python-tdbus

Requirements

Python-tdbus should work with Python 2.7 and later.

Comments and Suggestion

Feel free to add an issue on the Github site for python-tdbus:

https://github.com/hmvp/python-tdbus

Documentation

See the examples/ directory and "pydoc tdbus".

References

.. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python/ .. [2] http://www.gevent.org/