This may be a platform-specific, upstream issue.

For the new GObject support for PyViz for ns-3.29 and later, the function GooCanvas.Canvas.get_bounds() returns a TypeError on Fedora 26.

$ python
Python 2.7.14 (default, Mar 14 2018, 13:29:26)
[GCC 7.3.1 20180130 (Red Hat 7.3.1-2)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gi
>>> gi.require_version('GooCanvas','2.0')
>>> from gi.repository import GooCanvas
>>> my_canvas = GooCanvas.Canvas()
>>> my_canvas.set_bounds(-1, -1, 1, 1)
>>> my_canvas.get_bounds ()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: GooCanvas.Canvas.get_bounds() takes exactly 5 arguments (1 given)
>>> quit ()

However, all documented versions of get_bounds() do not require arguments, and the code runs successfully on Ubuntu 18:

$ python
Python 2.7.15rc1 (default, Apr 15 2018, 21:51:34)
[GCC 7.3.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import gi
>>> gi.require_version('GooCanvas','2.0')
>>> from gi.repository import GooCanvas
>>> my_canvas = GooCanvas.Canvas()
>>> my_canvas.set_bounds (-1, -1, 1, 1)
>>> my_canvas.get_bounds ()
(left=-1.0, top=-1.0, right=1.0, bottom=1.0)
>>> quit ()

The relevant Fedora packages are:
pygobject3-devel gobject-introspection-devel goocanvas2-devel

pygobject3-devel.x86_64                 3.24.1-1.fc26
gobject-introspection-devel.x86_64      1.52.1-1.fc26
goocanvas2-devel.x86_64            2.0.2-7.fc26

In src/visualizer/visualizer/core.py, there is some code to detect the case where a node has moved outside the bounds, and to resize the bounds.  The exception is now being caught, but the result is that bounds resizing will not work on such systems.

This tracker issue is to remember this and possibly try to further debug or ask upstream about this issue.