Miscellany

import dbus

bus = dbus.SessionBus()
proxy_obj = bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.DBus', '/org/freedesktop/DBus')
dbus_iface = dbus.Interface(proxy_obj, 'org.freedesktop.DBus')

for name in dbus_iface.ListNames():
        print name

proxy_obj = bus.get_object('vandenoever.strigi', '/search')
dbus_iface = dbus.Interface(proxy_obj, 'vandenoever.strigi')

print dbus_iface.getStatus()

print dbus_iface.stopDaemon()