[SOLVED]No module named gi.repository. How do I get it?

bibek22 · 2015-11-08 07:10:30

I was trying to work with gtk+3 in python. This http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedoc … l.html#id2 page says I need Pygobject. I installed it.
Sample code from http://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedoc … ction.html page has gi.repository as module to be imported.
When I try to run it, i get 'No module named gi.repository'.

Edit: Also installed python-gobject . Still get same result.

Last edited by bibek22 (2015-11-08 15:50:32)

mauritiusdadd · 2015-11-08 08:00:52

Take a look here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203480. You should also provide more information on the issue, in particular: are you using python3 or python2? How did you install pygobject and python-gobject?

Can you also post the output of the following commands?

$ which python
$ pacman -Qikk python-gobject python
$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__spec__)"
$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__dict__)"

NOTE: replace python with python2 in the above commands if you are using python2.

--edit:

Well, after reading your original post in the email notification (that was sent to me since I'm subscribed to this sub-forum), it seems to me that you didn't use pacman to install python-gobject, but you tried to use Jhbuild instead (whatever it is). If so, please undo everything you've done and install python-gobject using pacman: that's all you need to run the sample gtk3 code.

Last edited by mauritiusdadd (2015-11-08 09:57:14)

bibek22 · 2015-11-08 13:02:04

$ which python
/usr/bin/python3

$ pacman -Qikk python-gobject python
Name           : python-gobject
Version        : 3.18.2-1
Description    : Python 3 bindings for GObject
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : https://live.gnome.org/PyGObject
Licenses       : LGPL
Groups         : None
Provides       : None
Depends On     : gobject-introspection-runtime
                 pygobject-devel=3.18.2  python  cairo
Optional Deps  : None
Required By    : None
Optional For   : redshift
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : None
Installed Size : 1054.00 KiB
Packager       : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
                 <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
Build Date     : Sat 24 Oct 2015 10:59:45 PM NPT
Install Date   : Sun 08 Nov 2015 01:50:02 PM NPT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

python-gobject: 92 total files, 0 altered files
Name           : python
Version        : 3.5.0-2
Description    : Next generation of the python high-level
                 scripting language
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : http://www.python.org/
Licenses       : custom
Groups         : None
Provides       : python3
Depends On     : expat  bzip2  gdbm  openssl  libffi
                 zlib
Optional Deps  : python-setuptools [installed]
                 python-pip [installed]
                 sqlite [installed]
                 mpdecimal: for decimal
                 xz: for lzma [installed]
                 tk: for tkinter
Required By    : python-gobject  python-gobject2
                 python-packaging  python-pip
                 python-xdg  youtube-dl
Optional For   : cairo-dock-plug-ins  texlive-core
                 util-linux
Conflicts With : None
Replaces       : python3
Installed Size : 101.14 MiB
Packager       : Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Sun 20 Sep 2015 05:33:48 PM NPT
Install Date   : Sun 08 Nov 2015 01:44:27 PM NPT
Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another
                 package
Install Script : No
Validated By   : Signature

python: 6761 total files, 0 altered files

$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__spec__)"
ModuleSpec(name='gi', loader=<_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object at 0x7f8b8ce82d30>, origin='/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/__init__.py', submodule_search_locations=['/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi'])

$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__dict__)" 
{'_DummyStaticModule': <class 'gi._DummyStaticModule'>, '_error': <module 'gi._error' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/_error.py'>, 'version_info': (3, 18, 2), 'PyGIWarning': <class 'gi.PyGIWarning'>, 'get_required_version': <function get_required_version at 0x7efdda38d620>, 'types': <module 'types' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/types.py'>, '__spec__': ModuleSpec(name='gi', loader=<_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object at 0x7efddbb05d30>, origin='/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/__init__.py', submodule_search_locations=['/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi']), '__name__': 'gi', '__path__': ['/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi'], '__loader__': <_frozen_importlib_external.SourceFileLoader object at 0x7efddbb05d30>, 'check_version': <function check_version at 0x7efdda38d158>, '__doc__': None, 'os': <module 'os' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/os.py'>, '_gi': <module 'gi._gi' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'>, '__cached__': '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-35.pyc', '__version__': '3.18.2', 'sys': <module 'sys' (built-in)>, '__package__': 'gi', '_overridesdir': '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/overrides', 'require_foreign': <function require_foreign at 0x7efdda38d6a8>, '_versions': {}, 'importlib': <module 'importlib' from '/usr/lib/python3.5/importlib/__init__.py'>, '_static_binding_error': 'When using gi.repository you must not import static modules like "gobject". Please change all occurrences of "import gobject" to "from gi.repository import GObject". See: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709183', 'absolute_import': _Feature((2, 5, 0, 'alpha', 1), (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0), 16384), '__file__': '/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages/gi/__init__.py', 'Repository': <class 'gi.Repository'>, '_gobject': <module '_gobject'>, '_API': <capsule object "gi._API" at 0x7efdda3871e0>, 'PyGIDeprecationWarning': <class 'gi.PyGIDeprecationWarning'>, 'require_version': <function require_version at 0x7efdda38d268>, '__builtins__': {'OSError': <class 'OSError'>, 'dir': <built-in function dir>, 'UnicodeTranslateError': <class 'UnicodeTranslateError'>, 'ArithmeticError': <class 'ArithmeticError'>, 'UnboundLocalError': <class 'UnboundLocalError'>, 'AssertionError': <class 'AssertionError'>, 'ascii': <built-in function ascii>, '__spec__': ModuleSpec(name='builtins', loader=<class '_frozen_importlib.BuiltinImporter'>), 'BlockingIOError': <class 'BlockingIOError'>, 'ImportWarning': <class 'ImportWarning'>, 'callable': <built-in function callable>, 'pow': <built-in function pow>, 'slice': <class 'slice'>, 'UserWarning': <class 'UserWarning'>, 'EOFError': <class 'EOFError'>, 'SyntaxWarning': <class 'SyntaxWarning'>, 'format': <built-in function format>, 'float': <class 'float'>, '__import__': <built-in function __import__>, 'UnicodeEncodeError': <class 'UnicodeEncodeError'>, 'quit': Use quit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit, 'divmod': <built-in function divmod>, 'MemoryError': <class 'MemoryError'>, 'credits':     Thanks to CWI, CNRI, BeOpen.com, Zope Corporation and a cast of thousands
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All Rights Reserved.

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All Rights Reserved.

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All Rights Reserved.

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I un-did everything I'd done with Jhbuild.
The program doesn't complain that the module is missing when I use python3.
But, I am not very used to python3 and would like to use python2.7 .
But, it complains me about module not being found which I try to run :

#!/usr/bin/python2
from gi.repository import Gtk

class MyWindow(Gtk.Window):
    def __init__(self):
        Gtk.Window.__init__(self, title="Hello World")
        self.button = Gtk.Button(label="Click Here")
        self.button.connect("clicked", self.on_button_clicked)
        self.add(self.button)
    def on_button_clicked(self, widget):
        print ("Hello World")


win = MyWindow()
win.connect("delete-event", Gtk.main_quit)
win.show_all()
Gtk.main()

here's some output.

$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__spec__)"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gi

$ python -c "import gi; print(gi.__dict__)" 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named gi

Last edited by bibek22 (2015-11-08 13:10:31)

mauritiusdadd · 2015-11-08 15:28:14

bibek22 wrote:

But, I am not very used to python3 and would like to use python2.7 .
But, it complains me about module not being found which I try to run

If you want to use python2, you have to install python2-gobject.

bibek22 · 2015-11-08 15:50:06

That was exactly What I needed.

kirby_33 · 2017-04-05 09:15:06

I don't know if my comment can help someone... But I had the same issue using Ubuntu 16.04. My issue was an update of the python package using 'pip':
My solution was to remove the package with pip and reinstall it with apt-get:

sudo -H pip uninstall gi
sudo apt-get install --reinstall python-gi

Regards.

olegabrielz · 2017-04-05 09:41:13

1. Do not necrobump. The last post is one and a half years old. Pluss
2. I don't see the relevance. This is Arch Linux forums, supporting Arch Linux only.

ewaller · 2017-04-05 14:07:01

Closing this old thread.

Arch Linux

#1 2015-11-08 07:10:30

[SOLVED]No module named gi.repository. How do I get it?

#2 2015-11-08 08:00:52

Re: [SOLVED]No module named gi.repository. How do I get it?

#3 2015-11-08 13:02:04

Re: [SOLVED]No module named gi.repository. How do I get it?

#4 2015-11-08 15:28:14

Re: [SOLVED]No module named gi.repository. How do I get it?

#5 2015-11-08 15:50:06

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#6 2017-04-05 09:15:06

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#7 2017-04-05 09:41:13

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#8 2017-04-05 14:07:01

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