Re: OSX: importing gi from pygobject3: “ImportError: cannot import name _gi”

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

> On Apr 12, 2018, at 5:33 PM, Krister <thekswenson gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I had a working python program that uses GTK3 as installed with
> homebrew. After updating my OSX system I now get the error:
>
> import gi
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42,
> in <module>
> ImportError: cannot import name _gi
>
> The minimal example that reproduces this error would be:
>
>    # import_gi.py
>    import gi
>
> which produces:
>
> => /usr/local/Cellar/python\@2/2.7.14_3/bin/python2 import_gi.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "import_gi.py", line 1, in <module>
>    import gi
>  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gi/__init__.py", line
> 42, in <module>
> ImportError: cannot import name _gi
>
> I've tried running
>
>    brew reinstall pygobject3 gtk+3
>
> which did not fix the problem.
>
> Does someone have an idea of what may be going on?
> _______________________________________________

It's girepository, not gi. And you don't usually want to import it, you want to e.g.
  from girepository import Gtk.

Regards,
John Ralls