There have been big changes to PyPlot and PyCall that seem to have
introduced these problems (at least, for me as well and for others on this
forum). See the other thread about that. You may want to post this as an
issue on the PyPlot Github to help them track down what the problem is.
On Saturday, August 6, 2016 at 9:21:52 AM UTC-7, Ferran Mazzanti wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> just erased everything that is julia-related (including julia itself),
> removed .julia etc... and installed from scratch 0.4.6. WHen I tried to
> installed PyPlot and issued the
> using PyPlot
> command I got this:
>
> ERROR: InitError: PyError (:PyImport_ImportModule) <type
> 'exceptions.ValueError'>
> ValueError('unknown locale: UTF-8',)
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>
> line 1131, in <module>
> rcParams = rc_params()
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>
> line 975, in rc_params
> return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>
> line 1100, in rc_params_from_file
> config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>
> line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file
> with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/contextlib.py",
> line 17, in __enter__
> return self.gen.next()
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py",
>
> line 1000, in _open_file_or_url
> encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line
> 545, in getdefaultlocale
> return _parse_localename(localename)
> File
> "/Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/Conda/deps/usr/lib/python2.7/locale.py", line
> 477, in _parse_localename
> raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
>
> [inlined code] from /Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/exception.jl:81
> in pyimport at /Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/PyCall.jl:386
> in pyimport_conda at /Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/PyCall/src/PyCall.jl:479
> in __init__ at /Users/mazzanti/.julia/v0.4/PyPlot/src/PyPlot.jl:223
> in _require_from_serialized at loading.jl:84
> in require at
> /Applications/Julia-0.4.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/sys.dylib
> during initialization of module PyPlot
>
> ...and no PyPlot whatsoever. Oh btw I did the ENV["python"]="" before all
> this...
> Is theer any problem related to PyPlot in OSX that has been introduced
> lately? It used to run flawlessly before...
> Any help to solve this? I'd like to have PyPlot running as many of my
> notebooks depend on it...
>
> Best,
>
> Ferran.
>
