Imports

The toplevel gi package allows you to import the different libraries namespaces and ensure specific versions of them.

The next code line will import the GTK and GLib libraries from the gi.repository module. gi.repository holds the libraries bindings.

from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib

If you want to ensure a specific version of a library you can use gi.require_version().

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '4.0')
gi.require_version('GLib', '2.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk, GLib

To avoid PEP8/E402 you can use a try block.

import sys

import gi
try:
    gi.require_version('Gtk', '4.0')
    gi.require_version('Adw', '1')
    from gi.repository import Adw, Gtk
except ImportError or ValueError as exc:
    print('Error: Dependencies not met.', exc)
    sys.exit(1)

See also

For more detailed information of the methods provided by the gi module checkout GI Documentation.