Looks like I have broken my python installation when I wanted to switch to python 3.8. Using Ubuntu 18.04. Trying to use the gi, gives the following error:
$ python
Python 3.8.1 (default, Dec 31 2019, 18:42:42)
[GCC 7.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from gi.repository import GLib, Gio
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
from . import _gi
ImportError: cannot import name '_gi' from partially initialized module 'gi' (most likely due to a circular import) (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py)
Tried running update-alternatives for python, but it tells me there is only one python alternative configured (3.8).
Tried to reinstall python3-gi and python3.8. Still the same problem
Have same issue, can't load module from script folder. In my case work if i changing workdir for example (but only for inline command):
cd /tmp; python -c 'from gocd import Server'
echo $?
0
After copy script to /tmp, it's does't work
cp gocd.py /tmp
cd /tmp; python -c 'from gocd import Server'
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/tmp/gocd.py", line 3, in <module>
from gocd import Server
ImportError: cannot import name 'Server' from partially initialized module 'gocd' (most likely due to a circular import) (/tmp/gocd.py)
Install gi for python 3.8: python3.8 -m pip install pgi
Then, instead of import gi use:
import pgi
pgi.install_as_gi()
from gi.repository import GLib, Gio
Alternatively, you can force install PyGObject for python 3.8:
sudo python3.8 -m pip install --ignore-installed PyGObject
which should allow one to from gi import ... as before.
I had the same issue. I linked python3 to python3.6, for me it was pointing to 3.8. That solved the issue.
cd /usr/bin/
rm python3
ln -s python3.6 python3
Thats all. Now my system started working fine.
Found answer here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1709787:
The cause is - /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-38m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so has incorrect name:
sh-5.0# python3 -c 'from gi.repository import GLib' Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/init.py", line 42, in from . import _gi ImportError: cannot import name '_gi' from 'gi' (/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/init.py) sh-5.0# mv /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-38m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so sh-5.0# python3 -c 'from gi.repository import GLib'
Note that since 3.8.0a4, the "m" is not supposed to be there. Is it somehow hardcoded?
sh-5.0# python3-config --extension-suffix .cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
in my case it was
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.cpython-35m-x86_64-linux-gnu.so /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/_gi_cairo.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
For me the workaround was to create a symlink:
cd /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/
sudo ln -s _gi.so _gi.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
and it solved the problem for me.
The reason of this error is that this app can't find the matched Python version of _gi_cairo.cpython-(version)-x86_64-linux-gnu.so.
Normally, this unmatched situation is caused by some wrong mixed usage of different versions of Python.
So basically, you can try to switch your Python version ( to the default version of your OS). Or you can go to '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi' and create a new .so library file:
cp _gi_cairo.cpython-(old version)-x86_64-linux-gnu.so _gi_cairo.cpython-(new version)-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
or
ln -s _gi_cairo.cpython-(old version)-x86_64-linux-gnu.so _gi.so