#! /usr/bin/python import dbus # Obtain proxy to the '/org/me/test' object living in connection 'org.me' obj = dbus.SessionBus().get_object('org.me', '/org/me/test') # Invoke object's hi() method. A special parameter dbus_interface specifies # which interface defines the method. There are other ways of naming the # interface, but I'm told they are really obsolete. # The return value for hi() arrives from the object as if this were a local # method invocation. print obj.hi(dbus_interface='org.me.HelloInterface') # This method raises an exception on the other end, which is also translated # to a normal exception on our end. try: obj.fail(dbus_interface='org.me.HelloInterface') except Exception, e: print str(e)