Bug#760946: ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API object)

[Olivier Berger]

Package: python-gconf
Version: 2.28.1+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I've been unable to start pysshmenu, which uses the following code :

#!/usr/bin/python
'''
...
'''

from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk
import copy
import re
import subprocess
import os
import yaml
import shutil
import gconf
import glib
import webbrowser


which results in :
$ /usr/bin/pysshmenu

** (pysshmenu:23359): WARNING **: Couldn't register with accessibility bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/pysshmenu", line 32, in <module>
    import gconf
ImportError: could not import gobject (could not find _PyGObject_API object)

I don't understand what's happening, since there's no problem in importing gconf without the preceding imports.

This looks very much like something that appeared in #725665 for nautilus a while ago.

Thanks in advance.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages python-gconf depends on:
ii  libc6             2.19-10
ii  libgconf2-4       3.2.6-3
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.40.0-5
ii  python            2.7.8-1
ii  python-gobject-2  2.28.6-12+b1
ii  python2.7         2.7.8-6

python-gconf recommends no packages.

Versions of packages python-gconf suggests:
pn  python-gnome2-doc  <none>

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