To run skype API in mandriva using Skype4Py, go to installer /Skype4Py/api/posix.py and change
def SkypeAPI(opts): trans = opts.pop('Transport', 'dbus')
to
def SkypeAPI(opts): trans = opts.pop('Transport', 'x11')
then save and build and install again your setup.py. And run again your code to (call..etc) to skype using skype4py.