This is not a bug. Calling GObject.Type() is the general GObject
constructor which you can only call with initializing properties, as
keyword arguments. What you want is to explicitly call a constructor of
the Metadata class. In that case there is only one,
gexiv2_metadata_new(), which translates as
GExiv2.Metadata.new('foo.png'), but in many cases there are several (e.
g. Gtk.Button.new_with_label('label').This might be confusing as a lot of the standard Gtk widgets *can* be called like that, as they have overrides. However, these have been deprecated at last, as they are confusing, error prone, and ambiguous (https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations). ** Changed in: gexiv2 (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- 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: Invalid 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
