python 3.x - AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans'

Question

I've been doing some previous research about this error. There are some explanations here in StackOverflow related, the solutions suggested are quite unrelated though.

When I try to import Gtk from gi.repository, it crashes with the following output:
bash-4.2$ python3 Python 3.2 (r32:88445, Feb 21 2011, 21:11:06) [GCC 4.6.0 20110212 (Red Hat 4.6.0-0.7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

>>> from gi.repository import Gtk

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 76, in load_module  
dynamic_module._load()
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 251, in _load
overrides_modules = __import__('gi.overrides', fromlist=[self._namespace])
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py", line 400, in <module>
class MessageDialog(Gtk.MessageDialog, Dialog):
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/overrides/Gtk.py", line 404, in   
MessageDialog
type=Gtk.MessageType.INFO,
File "/usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 127, in __getattr__
ascii_upper_trans = string.maketrans(
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans' 

Since this is an import straight from python console and not by executing a python file script I don't even have a clue how to handle this.

Answer 1

Ok, I managed to get it work. Despite is a dirty workaround:

I modified /usr/lib64/python3.2/site-packages/gi/module.py

in line 127 I replaced string.maketrans with str.maketrans so it complies with python 3 docs.

Hope to be helpful for anyone in my circumstances.

Hugo