GObject is an abstraction layer that allows programming with an object paradigm that is compatible with many languages. It is a part of Glib, the core library used to build GTK+ and GNOME.

This package contains the static Python bindings for gobject, glib, and gio. These are deprecated by dynamic GObject-Introspection bindings (which are provided by the python-gi package), and should not be used in newly written code. These static bindings just exist to provide backwards compatibility for GNOME 2 based software.