Re: [Matplotlib-users] Error when importing pyplot from matplotlib: »invalid literal for float(): 19#«

[knight91 <kni...@we...>]

Okay, is there a way to get an afm font file with a nicely formed header? How
could I try to solve this problem?


Thomas Caswell wrote
> You have an afm font file with a badly formed header.  I thought this was
> fixed on the master branch though....
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:51 PM knight91 <

> knight91@

> > wrote:
> 
>> Python claims to be unable to import pyplot. Apart from that, it has been
>> running absolutely fine.
>>
>> I tried different versions of matplotlib, the one provided in my package
>> manager (apt-get) and two (stable & last stable) releases compiled from
>> source. I reinstalled all packages containting "python" on my system
>> (Ubuntu
>> 14.04 LTS). This error still occurs and prevents me from using pyplot.
>>
>> What should I try next?
>>
>> Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
>> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
>> >>> from matplotlib import pyplot
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "
> <stdin>
> ", line 1, in 
> <module>
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 24, in
>> 
> <module>
>>   import matplotlib.colorbar
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 29, in
>> 
> <module>
>>   import matplotlib.collections as collections
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/collections.py", line 23,
>> in
>> 
> <module>
>>   import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 50,
>> in
>> 
> <module>
>>   import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 11, in
>> 
> <module>
>>   import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
>> 1356,
>> in 
> <module>
>>   _rebuild()
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
>> 1341,
>> in _rebuild
>>   fontManager = FontManager()
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line
>> 1008,
>> in __init__
>>   self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles, fontext='afm')
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 563,
>> in
>> createFontList
>>   font = afm.AFM(fh)
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 342, in
>> __init__
>>   parse_afm(fh)
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 330, in
>> parse_afm
>>   dcmetrics_ascii, dcmetrics_name = _parse_char_metrics(fh)
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 203, in
>> _parse_char_metrics
>>   bbox = _to_list_of_floats(vals[3][2:])
>> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 69, in
>> _to_list_of_floats
>>   return [_to_float(val) for val in s.split()]
>> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 19#
>>





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