Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: matplotlib-0.90.1

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Hi Andrew,

Werner F. Bruhin wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Andrew Straw wrote:
>   
>> Dear Werner,
>>
>> This seems to be an unintended side-effect of reorganizing the mpl 
>> data file location that I did prior to this release. (I.e. it's not 
>> your code that broke, I think it's mpl.) Unfortunately, since I didn't 
>> (and still don't) use py2exe, it will be hard for me to fix this. Can 
>> you send a patch that gets py2exe working again?
>>     
> The work around I did is using glob.glob instead as follows:
>
> # matplotlib data
> ##mpdir, mpfiles = matplotlib.get_py2exe_datafiles()
> mpfiles = glob.glob('C:\Python25\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\*.*')
>
> But I can't confirm yet that this works as I am also trying out 
> something else in my InnoSetup script.  Will confirm ASAP and will try 
> and look into matplotlib.get_py2exe_datafiles() and see how it could be 
> fixed.
>   
I have change matplotlib.get_py2exe_datafiles() to:
def get_py2exe_datafiles():
    import glob
   
    mplfiles = []
    for item in glob.glob(os.sep.join([get_data_path(), '*/*'])):
        if os.path.isdir(item):
            mplfiles += glob.glob(os.sep.join([item, '/*']))
           
    mplfiles.append(os.sep.join([get_data_path(), 'matplotlibrc']))

    try:
        mplfiles.remove(os.sep.join([get_data_path(), 'Matplotlib.nib']))
    except:
        pass

    return ('matplotlibdata', mplfiles)

Now this creates a "flat" folder, i.e. all datafiles are directly under 
matplotlibdata.  In my tests this works for me in my limited tests, with 
the exception that I also get the "Could not match Bitstream Vera 
......etc" error - but this is something I also get with py2exe, so I 
don't know if this is an issue.

Andrew, do you know if the sub-folder structure should be retained when 
using py2exe for matplotlib to work correctly in all circumstances?  If 
that would be the case let me know and I try to come up with something.

Werner