Platform: Ubuntu 16.04 arm7l

Gstreamer 1.10.2 compiled from source into custom location (/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer) with usual bunch of plugins (good/bad/ugly/libav).  All plugins work except python:

Total count: 175 plugins (1 blacklist entry not shown), 1261 features
Blacklisted files:
  libgstpythonplugin.so

Configure:
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer/lib/pkgconfig LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer/lib ./autogen.sh --with-libpython-dir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer

Typelib set in 
GI_TYPELIB_PATH=/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer/lib/girepository-1.0:/usr/lib/girepository-1.0

Result of gst-inspect-1.0 --gst-disable-registry-update --gst-debug=4 /srv/maverick/software/gstreamer/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpythonplugin.so:

0:00:00.001112829 12755    0x37280 INFO                GST_INIT gstmessage.c:126:_priv_gst_message_initialize: init messages
0:00:00.003132362 12755    0x37280 INFO                GST_INIT gstcontext.c:83:_priv_gst_context_initialize: init contexts
0:00:00.004453232 12755    0x37280 INFO      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING gstplugin.c:316:_priv_gst_plugin_initialize: registering 0 static plugins
0:00:00.004800606 12755    0x37280 INFO      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING gstplugin.c:224:gst_plugin_register_static: registered static plugin "static
elements"
0:00:00.004834814 12755    0x37280 INFO      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING gstplugin.c:226:gst_plugin_register_static: added static plugin "staticeleme
nts", result: 1
0:00:00.004906564 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistry.c:1738:ensure_current_registry: reading registry cache: /srv/maverick/
.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin
0:00:00.005417853 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistrybinary.c:537:priv_gst_registry_binary_read_cache: Unable to mmap file /
srv/maverick/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin : Failed to open file '/srv/maverick/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin': open() failed: No such file or direct
ory
0:00:00.005471145 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistrybinary.c:547:priv_gst_registry_binary_read_cache: Unable to read file /
srv/maverick/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin : Failed to open file '/srv/maverick/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin': No such file or directory
0:00:00.005501561 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistry.c:1594:scan_and_update_registry: Validating plugins from registry cach
e: /srv/maverick/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/registry.armv7l.bin

** (gst-plugin-scanner:12756): CRITICAL **: gi.repository.Gst is no dict
0:00:01.728468407 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistry.c:1705:scan_and_update_registry: Registry cache changed. Writing new r
egistry cache
0:00:01.728540032 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistrybinary.c:368:priv_gst_registry_binary_write_cache: Building binary regi
stry cache image
0:00:01.920471827 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistrybinary.c:400:priv_gst_registry_binary_write_cache: Writing binary regis
try cache
0:00:02.137670728 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistrybinary.c:261:gst_registry_binary_cache_finish: Wrote binary registry ca
che
0:00:02.137935226 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistry.c:1714:scan_and_update_registry: Registry cache written successfully
0:00:02.137977060 12755    0x37280 INFO            GST_REGISTRY gstregistry.c:1773:ensure_current_registry: registry reading and updating done, re
sult = 1
0:00:02.138021643 12755    0x37280 INFO                GST_INIT gst.c:720:init_post: GLib runtime version: 2.48.1
0:00:02.138071184 12755    0x37280 INFO                GST_INIT gst.c:722:init_post: GLib headers version: 2.48.1
0:00:02.138114517 12755    0x37280 INFO                GST_INIT gst.c:723:init_post: initialized GStreamer successfully

** (gst-inspect-1.0:12755): CRITICAL **: gi.repository.Gst is no dict
0:00:02.337317658 12755    0x37280 WARN      GST_PLUGIN_LOADING gstplugin.c:526:gst_plugin_register_func: plugin "/srv/maverick/software/
gstreamer/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpythonplugin.so" failed to initialise
Could not load plugin file: File "/srv/maverick/software/gstreamer/lib/gstreamer-1.0/libgstpythonplugin.so" appears to be a GStreamer plugin, but it failed to initialize