Re: [Matplotlib-users] Japanese Windows win32 API / _winreg / font_manager.py bug workaround

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "matthew" == matthew arnison <ma...@ca...> writes:

    matthew> To make a long story short, _winreg is failing to deal
    matthew> with some Japanese font registry keys, and throwing the
    matthew> WindowsError (ErrNo 234). A good workaround is to add a
    matthew> "try / except WindowsError: pass" around the
    matthew> _winreg.EnumValue() stanza inside the for loop. From my
    matthew> testing, for a system with 93 fonts, this should skip the
    matthew> 3 troublesome fonts and catalog the rest.

    matthew> My apologies that I cannot provide a patch or a simple
    matthew> test case at this time, but I hope this report is useful.

Hi Matthew -- thanks for your efforts on this.  I have to honestly say
that I don't have a lot of time to work on this bug -- I don't know
enough about Japanese fonts or the windows registry.  None of the
other matplotlib developers seem to have taken up the banner either.
If you can provide a patch that fixes or works around the bug, I'd be
very happy to include it.  I could work figure out the appropriate
patch by reading your email closely, but I don't have a good
environment to test it, so it would be more efficient if you simply
submitted a patch that has your try/except workaround until we can
come up with something better.

Thanks!
JDH