Gnome-terminal not starting due to error in python script related to GI

Question

When I run gnome-terminal, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File \"/usr/bin/gnome-terminal\", line 9, in 
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Answer 1

Happened to me with /usr/bin/chrome-gnome-shell script, on Linux (RHEL 7.6):

Traceback (most recent call last):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/chrome-gnome-shell", line 16, in 
    from gi.repository import GLib, Gio
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'

To fix it I had to install PyGObject:

$ sudo yum install python36-gobject.x86_64
# or directly with pip: pip3 install PyGObject

Once completed installation, running the script showed no error.