Re: [Matplotlib-users] 0.99.1.2: error in afm.py

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Rich Shepard <rsh...@ap...>wrote:

>   After a long hiatus I'm again working on an application and just upgraded
> matplotlib from 0.98.5.2 to 0.99.1.2. However, there's an error on start up
> that I need your help in resolving.
>
>   There are many dozens of lines containing:
>
> Found an unknown keyword in AFM header (was Underline)
>
> The traceback (in its entirety) shows:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./eikos.py", line 6, in <module>
>     from modelPage import modModel
>   File "/home/rshepard/development/trunk/modelPage.py", line 8, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.backends.backend_wxagg import FigureCanvasWxAgg as
> FigureCanvas
>   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_wxagg.py",
> line 20, in <module>
>     from matplotlib.figure import Figure
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 18, in
> <module>
>     from axes import Axes, SubplotBase, subplot_class_factory
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py", line 12, in
> <module>
>     import matplotlib.axis as maxis
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 10, in
> <module>
>     import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> 1301, in <module>
>     _rebuild()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> 1292, in _rebuild
>     fontManager = FontManager()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> 1010, in __init__
>     self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles, fontext='afm')
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
> 578, in createFontList
>     font = afm.AFM(fh)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 295, in
> __init__
>     parse_afm(fh)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 283, in
> parse_afm
>     dcmetrics_ascii, dcmetrics_name = _parse_char_metrics(fh)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/matplotlib/afm.py", line 167, in
> _parse_char_metrics
>     name = vals[2].split()[1]
> IndexError: list index out of range
>
>   Please tell me what I need to do to resolve this error.
>
> Rich
>
>
Rich,

In the afm.py file, a before line 167, can you print the value of the "line"
variable and tell us what it is?

Ben Root