Or how about using wxEntryStart()
Nah, just change all occurrences of "wxGetApp" in your copy of core_wrap.cpp to "wxPyApp". It will still be accessible from Python as wx.GetApp, only the name of the C/C++ function will change.
Ok, thanks. Or, an alternative might be to simply invoke wxWidgets exclusively from python.
So many thanks Robin for all your valuable help. If all goes well (I'm developping on linux), I'll try to duplicate this on win32 also, see the muli-platform dream at work.
Vio