On 10/3/07, Simon McVittie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 at 17:43:41 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > > I used these to send arbitrary bytes over the Tube, which only supports > utf8. > > This isn't actually true. If a D-Bus method is declared with signature 's' > (string) it only supports unicode or UTF-8 str objects. If no signature is > declared but you use a str argument, dbus-python will guess that you > wanted signature 's' and the string has to be UTF-8. > > However, if your method is declared with signature 'ay' (byte array) you > can pass arbitrary binary data. You probably want to put > byte_arrays=True in the @method decorator, so the method will get its > input as a dbus.ByteArray (a subclass of str) rather than as a > dbus.Array of dbus.Bytes (subclasses of: a list of ints).
I hope this is a simple question: what is the preferred way to convert a file into a ByteArray for use with dBus?
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