dbus/examples: Move to examples/ (it's not part of the library and isn't installed)

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diff --git a/examples/example-client.py b/examples/example-client.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+usage = """Usage:
+python example-service.py &
+python example-client.py
+python example-client.py --exit-service
+"""
+
+import sys
+from traceback import print_exc
+
+import dbus
+import dbus.mainloop.glib
+
+def main():
+    bus = dbus.SessionBus()
+
+    try:
+        remote_object = bus.get_object("com.example.SampleService",
+                                       "/SomeObject")
+
+        # you can either specify the dbus_interface in each call...
+        hello_reply_list = remote_object.HelloWorld("Hello from example-client.py!",
+            dbus_interface = "com.example.SampleInterface")
+    except dbus.DBusException:
+        print_exc()
+        print usage
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    print (hello_reply_list)
+
+    # ... or create an Interface wrapper for the remote object
+    iface = dbus.Interface(remote_object, "com.example.SampleInterface")
+
+    hello_reply_tuple = iface.GetTuple()
+
+    print hello_reply_tuple
+
+    hello_reply_dict = iface.GetDict()
+
+    print hello_reply_dict
+
+    # introspection is automatically supported
+    print remote_object.Introspect(dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable")
+
+    if sys.argv[1:] == ['--exit-service']:
+        iface.Exit()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    dbus.mainloop.glib.DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
+    main()