GASP cannot be imported on Windows (No module named glib)

I'm trying to get GASP to work for Python 2.6 (winXP) so i can do the exersises in http://openbookproject.net//thinkCSpy to learn python.
when i try and import gasp I get the folowing error:

>>> import gasp

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#18>", line 1, in <module>
    import gasp
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gasp\__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from api import *
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gasp\api.py", line 26, in <module>
    import backend
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\gasp\backend.py", line 31, in <module>
    from glib import GError
ImportError: No module named glib

I looked up glib and it appears that its part of gtk+ (or so I gathered from a google search) which seems to be working fine
importing gtk works fine but if i try importing glib i get
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<pyshell#21>", line 1, in <module>
    import glib
ImportError: No module named glib

any ideas how to fix this?

(from LP question)