Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-16 Thread Paul Tremblay
Thanks. New issue submitted. In my humble opinion, the creation of a home configuration directory should be optional, only implemented by an option from the command line. Otherwise, a small detail like creating a directory can cause major headaches. On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Paul Ivanov

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Ivanov
Hi Paul and Paul, I thought I'd pile onto this Paul Pile... Paul Tremblay, on 2014-05-15 16:33, wrote: > However, this really is a bug. I have spent about two hours trying to get > this to work on EC. > > Where to I file bugs? https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues Here's a recent is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-15 Thread Paul Tremblay
However, this really is a bug. I have spent about two hours trying to get this to work on EC. Where to I file bugs? P. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I've discovered the problem and a fix. $HOME is set to /home/ptremblay, > but /home/ptremblay does not exist. If I do: >

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-07 Thread Paul Tremblay
I've discovered the problem and a fix. $HOME is set to /home/ptremblay, but /home/ptremblay does not exist. If I do: import os try: import matplotlib except AttributeError as msg: os.environ['HOME'] = '/apollo/env/Ssdf/var/home_config/' import matplotlib Then I can import

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-07 Thread Paul Tremblay
I am using our companies pacaking system. The version of matplotlib is 1.3.1, by the way. On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Paul Hobson wrote: > How did you install matplotlib? I've had success using anaconda on cheap > $7/month web servers before > http://continuum.io/downloads > > > On Wed, Ma

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-07 Thread Paul Hobson
How did you install matplotlib? I've had success using anaconda on cheap $7/month web servers before http://continuum.io/downloads On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I am using matplotllib as part of web server. matplotlib causes my server > to crash with this error: > > File

[Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

2014-05-07 Thread Paul Tremblay
I am using matplotllib as part of web server. matplotlib causes my server to crash with this error: File "/apollo/env/Ssdf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 597, in _get_configdir return _get_config_or_cache_dir(_get_xdg_config_dir()) File "/apollo/env/Ssdf/lib/python