title: AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'maketrans'
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to import Gtk from gi.repository, it crashes with the following output:
  <code><br>
      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.</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>&gt;&gt;&gt; from gi.repository import Gtk
  
  Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "&lt;stdin&gt;", line 1, in &lt;module&gt;
  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 &lt;module&gt;
  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' 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>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.</p>