#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# Если mocp и pidgin на разных хостах, то используйте эту команду
# ssh 192.168.0.153 python - producer < script.py | python script.py

import os, sys

def set_status(message, local_vars=
):
    if not local_vars:
        import dbus
        obj = dbus.SessionBus().get_object("im.pidgin.purple.PurpleService",
                                           "/im/pidgin/purple/PurpleObject")
        purple = dbus.Interface(obj, "im.pidgin.purple.PurpleInterface")
        local_vars.extend(<obj>)
    obj, purple = local_vars
    current = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetCurrent()
    status_type = purple.PurpleSavedstatusGetType(current)
    saved = purple.PurpleSavedstatusNew("", status_type)
    purple.PurpleSavedstatusSetMessage(saved, message)
    purple.PurpleSavedstatusActivate(saved)

def get_mocp_title():
    import subprocess
    pipe = subprocess.Popen("mocp -i".split(), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).stdout
    value = None
    for line in pipe:
        if ':' in line:
            header, val = line.split(':', 1)
            if header=="File":
                value = os.path.basename(val.strip()).split('.')<0>
            if header=="Title" and val.strip():
                value = val.strip()
    if value: return value.decode('utf-8', 'ignore')

if len(sys.argv) &gt; 1 and sys.argv<1> == "producer":
    import time
    oldst = None
    while 1:
        st = get_mocp_title()
        if st != oldst:
            print st.encode('utf-8')
            sys.stdout.flush()
            oldst = st
        time.sleep(100)
elif len(sys.argv) &gt; 1 and sys.argv<1> == "consumer":
    while 1:
        line = sys.stdin.readline().decode('utf-8')
        if not line: break
        st = line.strip()
        print "setting status:", st
        set_status(st)
else:
        st = get_mocp_title()
        if st:
            set_status(st)
</obj>