testing a simple "hello world":

pancake@bare:~/prg/py$ python2.3 hello.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "hello.py", line 3, in ?
    import gtk
  File "/usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 33, in ?
    import gobject as _gobject
ImportError: /usr/pkg/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gobject.so: undefined symbol: PyGILState_Ensure
pancake@bare:~/prg/py$ 

This is tested on GNU/Linux-DebianBase+Pkgsrc-CVSHEAD