Package dbus :: Class ByteArray

Class ByteArray

     object --+            
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     basestring --+        
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                str --+    
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_dbus_bindings._StrBase --+
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                         ByteArray

ByteArray is a subtype of str which can be used when you want an efficient immutable representation of a D-Bus byte array (signature 'ay').

By default, when byte arrays are converted from D-Bus to Python, they come out as a dbus.Array of dbus.Byte. This is just for symmetry with the other D-Bus types - in practice, what you usually want is the byte array represented as a string, using this class. To get this, pass the byte_arrays=True keyword argument to any of these methods:

any D-Bus method proxy, or connect_to_signal, on the objects returned by Bus.get_object
any D-Bus method on a dbus.Interface
dbus.Interface.connect_to_signal
Bus.add_signal_receiver

Import via:

from dbus import ByteArray

Constructor:

ByteArray(str)

Instance Methods

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Inherited from _dbus_bindings._StrBase: __delattr__, __getattribute__, __new__, __repr__, __setattr__

Inherited from str: __add__, __contains__, __eq__, __format__, __ge__, __getitem__, __getnewargs__, __getslice__, __gt__, __hash__, __le__, __len__, __lt__, __mod__, __mul__, __ne__, __rmod__, __rmul__, __sizeof__, __str__, capitalize, center, count, decode, encode, endswith, expandtabs, find, format, index, isalnum, isalpha, isdigit, islower, isspace, istitle, isupper, join, ljust, lower, lstrip, partition, replace, rfind, rindex, rjust, rpartition, rsplit, rstrip, split, splitlines, startswith, strip, swapcase, title, translate, upper, zfill

Inherited from str (private): _formatter_field_name_split, _formatter_parser

Inherited from object: __init__, __reduce__, __reduce_ex__, __subclasshook__

Properties

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Inherited from object: __class__