Module dbus_tools

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a very small collection of dbus-related conveniences.

Functions

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undbox(x)
undbox is a function that unwraps dbus types such as dbus.Int64 into python types such as int.

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Variables

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inttypes = (<type 'dbus.Int16'>, <type 'dbus.Int32'>, <type 'd...

strtypes = (<type 'dbus.ByteArray'>, <type 'dbus.String'>, <ty...

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undbox(x)

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undbox is a function that unwraps dbus types such as dbus.Int64 into python types such as int. The principal purpose of this unwrapping is to allow pickling, because dbus objects cannot be pickled.

Parameters:

x (any type) - an object that might contain dbus types

Returns:

an object that compares as equal to x, but has been recursively stripped of all dbus types

>>> a = dbus.Struct((dbus.UInt64(4252), dbus.ByteArray('asdf;lkj')))
>>> b = undbox(a)
>>> b
(4252, 'asdf;lkj')
>>> a == b
True

Variables Details

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inttypes

Value:

(<type 'dbus.Int16'>,
 <type 'dbus.Int32'>,
 <type 'dbus.Int64'>,
 <type 'dbus.Byte'>,
 <type 'dbus.UInt16'>,
 <type 'dbus.UInt32'>,
 <type 'dbus.UInt64'>)

strtypes

Value:

(<type 'dbus.ByteArray'>,
 <type 'dbus.String'>,
 <type 'dbus.UTF8String'>,
 <type 'dbus.Signature'>,
 <type 'dbus.ObjectPath'>)