On 8/4/06, R. Padraic Springuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> After installing matplotlib from the Window's binaries (a process which
> goes off without a hitch), I get the following error when trying to use it:
>
> Python 2.4.2 (#67, Sep 28 2005, 12:41:11) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
> win32
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> from pylab import *
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in ?
> from matplotlib.pylab import *
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pylab.py", line 200, in ?
> from axes import Axes, PolarAxes
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes.py", line 15, in ?
> from axis import XAxis, YAxis
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axis.py", line 25, in ?
> from font_manager import FontProperties
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line
> 990, in
> ?
> fontManager = FontManager()
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line
> 835, in
> __init__
> rebuild()
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line
> 828, in
> rebuild
> self.ttfdict = createFontDict(self.ttffiles)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\font_manager.py", line
> 456, in
> createFontDict
> warnings.warn("Cannot handle unicode filenames %s"%fpath)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\warnings.py", line 61, in warn
> warn_explicit(message, category, filename, lineno, module, registry)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\warnings.py", line 120, in warn_explicit
> showwarning(message, category, filename, lineno)
> File "C:\Python24\lib\warnings.py", line 127, in showwarning
> file.write(formatwarning(message, category, filename, lineno))
> File "C:\Python24\lib\warnings.py", line 133, in formatwarning
> s = "%s:%s: %s: %s\n" % (filename, lineno, category.__name__, message)
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xfc' in
> position 55:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Now, while I consider myself reasonably competant at sorting out errors
> in python, I haven't a clue what this one means, let alone how to fix
> it. Does anyone know what this means or how to fix it?
A unicode character in your font path? Weird. Try deleting your font
cache in your ~/.matplotlib folder. On windows it is somewhere in
your home folder.
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