wx.lib.plot is unusable - uses incompatible constructors API e.g. wx.Cursor instead of wx.CursorFromImage

[Alek Kowalczyk]

In Ubuntu 15.10 (wily) the wx.lib.plot module uses wrong constructors - some internal API incompatibility?

For instance wx.lib.plot.PlotCanvas.__init__ raises exception:

 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/lib/plot.py", line 598, in __init__
    self.HandCursor = wx.Cursor(Hand.GetImage())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/wx-3.0-gtk2/wx/_gdi.py", line 1510, in __init__
    _gdi_.Cursor_swiginit(self,_gdi_.new_Cursor(*args, **kwargs))
TypeError: Required argument 'type' (pos 2) not found

It seems wx.Cursor should be now wx.CursorFromImage.

Here is more comprehensive list of incompatibilities between wx.lib.plot and rest of wx
wx.Cursor => wx.CursorFromImage
wx.Bitmap => wx.EmptyBitmap
wx.Colour => wx.NamedColour

To make wx.lib.plot usable in Ubuntu 15.10, these two patches (or more) from github are required:
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxPython/commit/25bcbf15615b64e095da75e934ea4d254998ec24#diff-20049c762e6b232d6d9ad97291271244
https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxPython/commit/30bc07d80ae1c81d70b4de2daac62ecd7996d703#diff-20049c762e6b232d6d9ad97291271244

If someone knows a workaround, would appreciate a hint.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package wxpython3.0 - 3.0.2.0+dfsg-3

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wxpython3.0 (3.0.2.0+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=medium

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 -- Scott Talbert <email address hidden> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:21:42 -0400