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+# Copyright (c) Benjamin Kietzman (github.com/bkietz)
+#
+# Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+# file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+import dbus
+from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
+from gobject import MainLoop
+
+bus_name = 'com.example.Sample'
+session_bus = dbus.SessionBus(mainloop=DBusGMainLoop())
+
+example_remote = session_bus.get_object(bus_name, '/path/to/obj')
+example = dbus.Interface(example_remote, bus_name+'.Iface')
+
+example.StringifyVariant(123)
+print example.GetLastInput()
+
+MainLoop().run()