Many a times while you are working pygtk, You would like to make some widgets like buttons, checkboxes etc etc.. to be disabled for a action to complete, And again would like to enable it, after the action is complete. This simple function is all you would need to accomplish this.
def make_sensitive(state, widget_list):
"""
Enables/disables widgets
state: either True or False, True to Enable, False to Disable
widget_list: A list of widgets that you want to enable or disable collectively.
"""
s = state and 1 or 0
for w in widget_list:
w.set_sensitive(s)
