How to turn off tooltips in wxpython -

i have tried:

wx.tooltip.enable(false)     wx.tooltip_enable(false)     

and

wx.tooltip.enable(flag=false)     

none of theses instructions rejected , yet none of them work
i'm using linux mint 17 wx.python 2.8.12.1 (gtk2-unicode) python 2.7

according wxpython docs, tooltip.enable seems to,

enable or disable tooltips globally.

note may not supported on platforms (eg. cocoa).

which assume includes platform... instead, may need set tooltips window itself. there isn't tooltop_enable method can see window setting tooltip empty string seems trick me,

import wx  app = wx.app()  frame = wx.frame(none, -1, '') frame.settooltip(wx.tooltip('')) frame.setsize(wx.size(300,250)) frame.show()  app.mainloop() 

edit: define child tooltip class can enabled/disabled , defaults based on global value.

import wx  enabletooltips = false  class tooltip(wx.tooltip):      '''a subclass of wx.tooltip can disabled'''      def __init__(self, string, enable=enabletooltips):         self.tooltip_string = string         self.tooltipsenabled = enable         wx.tooltip.__init__(self, string)         self.enable(enable)      def enable(self, x):          if x true:             self.settip(self.tooltip_string)             self.tooltipsenabled = true         elif x false:             self.settip("")             self.tooltipsenabled = false           app = wx.app()  frame = wx.frame(none, -1, '') tt = tooltip('test') frame.settooltip(tt) frame.setsize(wx.size(300,250))  frame.show() app.mainloop() 

i'm not sure work dynamically (i.e. once start gui, frame tooltips have been set , changing value may not update).