D-Bus examples

The simplest

Python

#!/usr/bin/python
# coding=utf-8
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import dbus, sys, codecs;

sys.stdin = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdin);
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf-8')(sys.stdout);

pair_name = 'en-af';
dbus_pair_name = "/" + "_".join(pair_name.split("-"));

bus = dbus.SessionBus();

translator = dbus.Interface(bus.get_object("org.apertium.mode", dbus_pair_name), "org.apertium.Mode")

input = sys.stdin.read();

print translator.translate({}, input)