A few debugging tips: You can verify introspection overrides are brought in by looking at the private "_overrides_module" attribute of a library:
(this is on Fedora so Ubuntu will give a different location) python3 -c "from gi.repository import Gtk; print(Gtk._overrides_module)" <module 'gi.overrides.Gtk' from '/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py'> If you do the same thing with GExiv2, you should get a similar result in terms of output. It may also be a good idea to look at the result of Gtk.py to ensure the directory GExiv2.py found with "locate" is in the same place: python3 -c "from gi.repository import GExiv2; print(GExiv2._overrides_module)" <module 'gi.overrides.GExiv2' from '/usr/lib64/python3.3/site-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py'> Also note Python2 and 3 will require separate installs of the overrides to their respective site-packages/dist-packages directory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gexiv2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1277894 Title: GExiv2 python wrapper broken Status in “gexiv2” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch) Release: 14.04 gir1.2-gexiv2-0.4: Installed: 0.7.0-1 I can import the Python wrapper, but when initializing a Metadata object, I get an error: "TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given)" It doesn't work in both python 2.7 and 3.3. $ python >>> from gi.repository import GExiv2 >>> GExiv2.Metadata('foo.png') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) >>> $ python3 >>> from gi.repository import GExiv2 >>> GExiv2.Metadata('foo.png') Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> TypeError: GObject.__init__() takes exactly 0 arguments (1 given) >>> p.s. according to: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697204#32 the Python overrides are not installed? however, they seem to be: $ locate GExiv2.py /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GExiv2.py To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gexiv2/+bug/1277894/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
