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import matplotlib causes UnicodeDecodeError #6387
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OS: Debian (neurodebian virtual machine: http://neuro.debian.net/vm.html)
Matplotlib version: 1.5.1, installed with miniconda on python 2.7.11
I created a python environment with matplotlib installed (and a bunch of other stuff). Unfortunately, when trying to import matplotlib, I get the following error:
(/home/brain/sct_3.0_beta8/python)brain@neurodebian:~$ python Python 2.7.11 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 6 2015, 18:08:32) [GCC 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-1)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. Anaconda is brought to you by Continuum Analytics. Please check out: http://continuum.io/thanks and https://anaconda.org >>> import matplotlib Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xb1 in position 35: invalid start byte
Any idea where this issue come from and how to fix it?
Thanks!
Original issue: spinalcordtoolbox/spinalcordtoolbox#862
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tacaswell commented on May 8, 2016
Do you have non-ascii characters in your user path?
Does this happen with python3?
tacaswell commented on May 8, 2016
For reference
What is in your .matlplotlibrc file?
benjamindeleener commented on May 8, 2016
I didn't try on Python 3 (I'll try soon) and I don't think I have non-ascii characters in my user path.
When I type chr(0xb1), I get the following result:
And actually, it does not look that I have a .matplotlibrc file... (I looked in .config/matplotlib/)
And it seems matplotlib was not correctly installed. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and now it works.
That's weird.
tacaswell commented on May 8, 2016
The output of chr is a python 2/3 difference. It looks like 3 correctly handles high-code points where as 2 falls back to str(int()) just displaying the hex for the byte value
efiring commented on Jul 15, 2016
I gather the problem has been solved. If not, feel free to reopen this.