Error Importing Glib

Question

When trying to import glib in python 3 using from gi.repository import glib, I get an error saying:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 2135, in _find_spec
AttributeError: 'DynamicImporter' object has no attribute 'find_spec'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 53, in find_module
    'introspection typelib not found' % namespace)
ImportError: cannot import name glib, introspection typelib not found

I installed all the python glib/dev packages using apt-get on Ubuntu 14.04. Attempting to import the module in python 2 says the module doesn't exist.

How do I fix this?

Deepfry

Can you show your code? – Longplaying

It throws an error as soon as it gets to the import statement. I've tried using the interactive interpreter, that's where it throws the error. – Deepfry

Interesting. Can I ask how you installed glib? – Politian

Answer 1

It works for me with GLib correctly capitalized:

from gi.repository import GLib

Cavitation

Well, that works. Odd, I've seen multiple websites spell it with different capitalization saying it works. – Deepfry

@Deepfry maybe you confused it with the old style import glib? – Cavitation

Maybe the site I copied it from had. I've seen from gi.repository import glib and from gi.repository import Glib – Deepfry

A quick Google search shows me lots of from gi.repository import Glib and from gi.repository import GLib as glib. Easy to confuse, anyway. – Cavitation