I think this code is new in pygtk 2.9/2.10, in __init__.py:

_is_pydoc = False
if sys.argv:
    name = os.path.basename(sys.argv[0])
    if 'pydoc' in name:
        _is_pydoc = True

This crashes:

Traceback (most recent call last):

+ Trace 66750

when I use pygtk in a script when I embed python, because I am not providing any command-line arguments to the embedded python environments (I'm not even sure how to). It works fine with pygtk 2.8. Could pygtk 2.9 detect the lack of sys.argv and work past this, please?