glade/pygtk trouble on Red Hat 9

[Will Ware]

In July there was a thread about problems on Red Hat 9 with PyGTK
not playing nice with Glade. I was tinkering with this a little bit
tonight, starting with the code I found in this article:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6586

Based on what was written, I tried this and had no joy:
######################################
import gtk
import gtk.glade
class BadGui:
     def __init__(self):
         gladefile = "project1.glade"
         windowname = "window1"
         self.wTree = tree = gtk.glade.XML(gladefile, windowname)
         d = { }
         for name in dir(self.__class__):
             d[name] = getattr(self, name)
         tree.signal_autoconnect(d)
         gtk.mainloop()
     def on_button1_clicked(self, *args):
         print "button 1 clicked"
         gtk.mainquit()
     def on_button2_clicked(self, *args):
         print "button 2 clicked"
     def on_window1_destroy(self, *args):
         print args
         gtk.mainquit()
BadGui()
###################################

After some puttering, I came up with the following, which
works just fine:
########################################
import gtk
import gtk.glade
class GoodGui:
     def __init__(self):
         gladefile = "project1.glade"
         windowname = "window1"
         self.wTree = tree = gtk.glade.XML(gladefile, windowname)
         for name in dir(self.__class__):
             if name.startswith("on_"):
                 widgetname = name.split("_")[1]
                 widget = tree.get_widget(widgetname)
                 action = name[4 + len(widgetname):]
                 widget.connect(action, getattr(self, name))
         gtk.mainloop()
     def on_button1_clicked(self, *args):
         print "button 1 clicked"
         gtk.mainquit()
     def on_button2_clicked(self, *args):
         print "button 2 clicked"
     def on_window1_destroy(self, *args):
         print args
         gtk.mainquit()
GoodGui()
########################################

As far as I can tell, there seems to be a problem with
signal_autoconnect, either how it's implemented in libglade
or how it gets connected to Python. Anyway, I'm passing this
along for any who might find it helpful.