Bug#489955: ImportError: dynamic module does not define init function (initgtk)

[Manuel Metz]

I just stumbled over this bug report...

   What this error message is telling you, is that python tries to 
import a module called "gtk", but can not find it's init method 
(something like the main function of a C program), which is called 
"initgtk". This can happen, if there is somewhere a library called 
"gtk.so" in the python path (even in your private python path), which is 
not a python module, or if there is somewhere a copy of _gtk.so, but it 
has been renamed to gtk.so.

   So, you might want to check that there is no file called "gtk.so" 
anywhere in your python path that erroneously gets imported.