Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

[Thomas K. <th...@kl...>]

On 6 December 2013 04:55, Joel B. Mohler <jm...@ga...> wrote:

> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py in Verbose()
> --> 252     for arg in map(six.u, sys.argv[1:]):
> C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\six.pyc in u(s)
> --> 468         return unicode(s, "unicode_escape")
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'unicodeescape' codec can't decode bytes in position
> 2-3: truncated \UXXXXXXXX escape
>

I'll bet that one of the arguments starts with C:\Users. It looks like
six.u() can't be applied to arbitrary input (it's intended for literals).

Thomas