[pygtk] pygtk-codegen-2.0 and gobject interfaces?

[Michael Sheldon]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:07:31AM +0100, Michael Sheldon wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I'm attempting to write some python bindings for libempathy using 
> pygtk-codegen-2.0. However, if I build the bindings against python 2.5
> I get the following error when importing them:
> 
>   >>> import pyempathy
>  
>   ** (process:6982): WARNING **: couldn't make the type `pyempathy.ContactManager' ready
>   TypeError: mro() returned base with unsuitable layout ('pyempathy.ContactList')
>  
>   ** (process:6982): WARNING **: couldn't make the type `pyempathy.TpContactList' ready
>   TypeError: mro() returned base with unsuitable layout ('pyempathy.ContactList')
> 
>   Fatal Python error: can't initialise module pyempathy
>   Aborted
> 
>  However under python 2.4 they work correctly. I understand that this is
> perhaps a problem with the way in which pygtk-codegen-2.0 handles gobject
> interfaces (pyempathy.ContactList is an interface). What's the correct
> way for me to wrap gobject interfaces?

 Nevermind, managed to work it out in the end. For anyone else with a similar
problem the solution is that because h2def.py doesn't detect if something is 
an interface you need to modify the def to use "define-interface" instead of
"define-object".

 Cheers,
  Mike.

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Michael Sheldon
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