funny behaviour gtk+python

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On 10/4/07, Victor Lazzarini <Victor.Lazzarini at nuim.ie> wrote:
> (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?

Does running it with LANG=C help?

Marco