Python finds glib, but not _glib

Question

I try to import glib in Python (2.7) and get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/share/pyshared/glib/__init__.py", line 22, in <module>
    from glib._glib import *
ImportError: No module named _glib

Seems as if glib is found, while _glib is not found.

Has anybody a hint for solving this problem? I'm running Ubuntu and installed python2.7, python-gobject, python-gda, dbus from Ubuntu's package manager.

Answer 1

I had this issue.

You can try moving the glib and related folders out of the python2.7 install locations e.g. on ubuntu /usr/shared/pyshared in case these have been installed wrongly.

Then remove and reinstalling the related packages with the platform package manager ...

sudo apt-get remove followed by sudo apt-get install

for ...

python-gobject python-gtk libglib2.0-dev python-cario python-gi

since if they are present in pyshared I found that they were not probably reinstalled