Comment 2 for bug 1008282

Yes I am running the latest Xubuntu (12.04). When running your solution, I get
stevetest@stevetest-VirtualBox:~$ python -c 'from gi.repository import Unique, GObject, Gdk, Gtk'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 23, in <module>
    from gi.repository import GObject
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/repository/__init__.py", line 25, in <module>
    from ..importer import DynamicImporter
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/importer.py", line 28, in <module>
    from .module import DynamicModule, DynamicGObjectModule, DynamicGLibModule
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gi/module.py", line 172
    name = info.get_name()
                         ^
IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level