I am running VTK 4.2 with the Python interface and when 
I run the example cubeAxes.py, I get
   Traceback (most recent call last):
     File "cubeAxes.py", line 84, in ?
       axes = vtk.vtkCubeAxesActor2D()
   AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'vtkCubeAxesActor2D'
Most everything else has worked for me.
Fred Clare