Jouni, Are you certain the version you sent me is correct? It didn't make any difference - I get the same error messages.
Regards, > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Jouni K. Seppänen > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 11:20 PM > To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] PDF backend problem > > > I fixed another filehandle leak in the pdf backend, so here's > a more complete patch. There are also several cases of > file(...) being passed to pickle.dump or pickle.load in > font_manager.py. I was going to take care of these by writing > some utility functions, but I started wondering why the > import of cPickle or pickle is done only within methods of > FontManager and not at the top level. Are there some > platforms where neither is available, or what is the rationale? > > Index: backend_pdf.py > =================================================================== > --- backend_pdf.py (revision 3044) > +++ backend_pdf.py (revision 3046) > @@ -457,7 +457,9 @@ > self.writeObject(self.fontObject, fonts) > > def _write_afm_font(self, filename): > - font = AFM(file(filename)) > + fh = file(filename) > + font = AFM(fh) > + fh.close() > fontname = font.get_fontname() > fontdict = { 'Type': Name('Font'), > 'Subtype': Name('Type1'), > @@ -1081,7 +1083,9 @@ > font = self.afm_font_cache.get(key) > if font is None: > filename = fontManager.findfont(prop, fontext='afm') > - font = AFM(file(filename)) > + fh = file(filename) > + font = AFM(fh) > + fh.close() > self.afm_font_cache[key] = font > return font > > -- > Jouni K. Seppänen > http://www.iki.fi/jks > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the > chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through > brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge &CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users -- John Henry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users