I'm not a regular Windows user, so I'm probably not of much help, but...
It's trying to write a default .matplotlibrc file to C:\ Is that
directory writable, by the user that is running matplotlib?
Mike
David Springate wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a fairly new Python user and am trying to set up matplot lib to
> work with scipy as an alternative to matlab. I installed matplotlib
> on my home pc with no problems but I followed the same protocol on my
> work pc and got the following error when I tried to call in
>
> "From pylab import *" :
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in <module>
> from pylab import *
> File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module>
> from matplotlib.pylab import *
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 677, in
> <module>
> rcParams = rc_params()
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 598, in
> rc_params
> fname = matplotlib_fname()
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 548, in
> matplotlib_fname
> fname = os.path.join(get_configdir(), 'matplotlibrc')
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 242, in
> wrapper
> ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
> File "C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 438, in
> _get_configdir
> raise RuntimeError("Failed to create %s/.matplotlib; consider setting
> MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data"%h)
> RuntimeError: Failed to create C:\/.matplotlib; consider setting
> MPLCONFIGDIR to a writable directory for matplotlib configuration data
>
> ...I checked and as far as I can tell, none of the python directories
> are read-only. I also
> followed the instructions on the thread 'runtime error' which dealt with I
> think the same problems, but after patching the cutils.py (line 79)
> and the
> __init__ (line 435) files, I still have the same problem.
>
>
> Any advice would be apreciated. My home pc (where it works fine) is
> Vista, while work is XP pro. Python
> 2.5.2, scipy, numpy and matplotlib all installed from binaries. I
> also tried the enthought binary installation with the same result.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
>
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