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5.11. My callback is getting a gtk.gdk.Event object, but I need an EventExpose!

Event is in fact a GdkEventExpose, it's just called gtk.gdk.Event to make things a bit easier for the code generator.Everything except the region member in the GdkEventExpose struct is wrapped. So you can access the event's area, for instance:

 event.area.x

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