Interesting. Perhaps anything that throws an exception in the FT2Font constructor (which a bad font or a missing font would both do), is throwing off the reference count for the object and failing that assertion, rather than passing the exception back to Python. Only a theory.
What version of gcc are you using under mingw? Cheers, Mike Jörgen Stenarson wrote: > Michael Droettboom skrev: >> It's possible -- the version of freetype in the win32_static.tar.gz >> package is 2.1.7. I have 2.1.9 on my (working) Linux box. Perhaps >> something between those point releases fixes this bug. But it could >> be a lot of other things, too. >> >> I'm going to file a bug for this so it doesn't get lost. >> > > Great, in the meantime I'll just remove the orlando font, I don't use it > anyway. > > I have also stumbled on another font related crash. If I run the > examples/font_table_ttf.py with a non-existing font name I get the > crash. I have attached the output with debug-annoying set. As you can > see from the output the crash message is the same. > > /Jörgen > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
