Without this the examples don't work. Example:
$ /nix/store/HASH-gnuradio-3.7.1/share/gnuradio/examples/uhd/usrp_am_mw_rcv.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/nix/store/HASH-gnuradio-3.7.1/share/gnuradio/examples/uhd/usrp_am_mw_rcv.py", line 24, in <module>
from gnuradio import gr, eng_notation
ImportError: No module named gnuradio