Re: [Matplotlib-users] report a problem on importing pylab OR pyplot error

2010-11-29 Thread Michael Droettboom
I think you may have an .afm font file on your system that the AFM parser in matplotlib is having trouble with. Can you use the debugger to figure out what the value of "fpath" is on line 578 of font_manager.py is in the traceback below? Then we could figure out what the difficult file is. Mi

[Matplotlib-users] report a problem on importing pylab OR pyplot error

2010-11-26 Thread Daoliang Tan
Dear all, I am facing a weird problem when I import pylab or pyplot modules. Right now, I can successfully import matplotlib. But after I issue the command "ipython -pylab --verbose-helpful", I get the following error: ==