Re: [Matplotlib-users] Matplotlib import fail

[Thomas C. <tca...@gm...>]

Tobais,

In the future please send all messages like this to the user mailing list (cc'd)

Try using the 1.4.1rc1 release candidate, there are windows installers
on sourceforge.  If that does not work, please open a new github
issue.

Tom

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Tobias Landwehr <Dol...@gm...> wrote:
> Greetings Thomas,
>
> I am sorry to disturb you, but I found on github, that you could've already
> provided a solution to my problem almost three weeks ago. I couldn't really
> understand the way how to solve the prob, which is the reason I decided to
> write you.
>
> I am currently working with Python 2.7.2 and want to import the matplotlib.
> Problems arise obviously since my username-folder contains a non-ascii sign
> (german Ä). I would prefer to not setup a second user and the user's folder
> shouldn't/can't be renamed.
>
> If you could find some time to deal with the problem over the weekend or
> give me a hint, how to solve it, I would be really grateful. Below you'll
> find the fail report.
>
> Many thanks in advance, Tobias
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python27\workspace\ITT\src\itt\statistics\block01\LandCover.py",
> line 7, in <module>
>     import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 1048, in
> <module>
>     rcParams = rc_params()
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 897, in
> rc_params
>     fname = matplotlib_fname()
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 759, in
> matplotlib_fname
>     configdir = _get_configdir()
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 630, in
> _get_configdir
>     return _get_config_or_cache_dir(_get_xdg_config_dir())
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 555, in
> _get_xdg_config_dir
>     path = get_home()
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 323, in
> wrapper
>     ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 509, in
> _get_home
>     path = os.path.expanduser("~")
>   File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 310, in expanduser
>     return userhome + path[i:]
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x84 in position 16:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>



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