#!/usr/bin/env python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() remote_object = bus.get_object("org.designfu.SampleService", "/SomeObject") iface = dbus.Interface(remote_object, "org.designfu.SampleInterface") hello_reply_list = remote_object.HelloWorld("Hello from example-client.py!", dbus_interface = "org.designfu.SampleInterface") hello_reply_tuple = iface.GetTuple() hello_reply_dict = iface.GetDict() print (hello_reply_list) print str(hello_reply_tuple) print str(hello_reply_dict) print remote_object.Introspect(dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable")