wx.StandardPaths confusion

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It's wrapping a C++ singleton API. Use wx.StandardPaths.Get(), or
wx.StandardPaths_Get() to get the instance.

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On 9/10/07, Paul McNett <p@ulmcnett.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to use wx.StandardPaths.GetTempDir(), but am confused by the
tracebacks I'm getting:

>>> import wx
>>> wx.StandardPaths.GetTempDir()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unbound method GetTempDir() must be called with StandardPaths
instance as first argument (got nothing instead)

Ok, I must need to instantiate it first:

>>> sp = wx.StandardPaths()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File
"//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_misc.py",
line 6027, in __init__
     def __init__(self): raise AttributeError, "No constructor defined"
AttributeError: No constructor defined

Hmm, must be something else to instantiate first?:

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Chris Mellon wrote:

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On 9/10/07, Paul McNett <p@ulmcnett.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm trying to use wx.StandardPaths.GetTempDir(), but am confused by the
tracebacks I'm getting:

>>> import wx
>>> wx.StandardPaths.GetTempDir()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unbound method GetTempDir() must be called with StandardPaths
instance as first argument (got nothing instead)

Ok, I must need to instantiate it first:

>>> sp = wx.StandardPaths()
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File
"//Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/site-packages/wx-2.8-mac-unicode/wx/_misc.py",
line 6027, in __init__
     def __init__(self): raise AttributeError, "No constructor defined"
AttributeError: No constructor defined

Hmm, must be something else to instantiate first?:

It's wrapping a C++ singleton API. Use wx.StandardPaths.Get(), or
wx.StandardPaths_Get() to get the instance.

Please use the former. I'd eventually like to deprecate and remove the underscore version of the static method wrappers.

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