This project is now maintained by Github user hmvp. Please use the following repo as the new upstream: https://github.com/hmvp/python-tdbus This repository is kept for historical purposes only. 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 Requirements ============ Python-tdbus should work with Python 2.6 and later (Python 3.x included). Comments and Suggestion ======================= Feel free to add an issue on the Github site for python-tdbus: https://github.com/geertj/python-tdbus Documentation ============= See the examples/ directory and "pydoc tdbus". References ========== .. [1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/dbus/dbus-python/ .. [2] http://www.gevent.org/