funny behaviour gtk+python

[Victor Lazzarini]

(OLPC build 602)
I have been trying a few things here and I stumbled
across a funny problem (this is quite specialised, so
I suppose only a few of you would know):

1. With Python, if I do

import gtk
import csnd

cs = csnd.Csound()
cs.Compile("myexample.csd")	

the csound compilation will fail with very unusual
syntax errors (which are not syntax errors at all)
(eg: "error: numeric syntax "11.1", line ...")

2. If I don't do

import gtk

Csound will happily compile my code.

Now this seems so weird that I can't understand
why it is happening.

Any clues why "import gtk" is causing this
behaviour?

thanks

Victor
Victor Lazzarini
Music Technology Laboratory
Music Department
National University of Ireland, Maynooth