I recently ran into a similar problem myself building stuff from source, but I'm not sure of the specifics with SuSE and their packages etc.
Python can be configured in two ways -- with two-byte (UCS2) or four-byte (UCS4) Unicode characters. Apparently the default for a source installation of Python is UCS2, but many (most) Linux distributions build it for UCS4. Python extensions built for one configuration can not be used with a Python built for the other configuration. When Python extensions are built, if all goes well, they will match the configuration of the Python interpreter. It looks like somehow you have a mismatch between matplotlib and your Python interpreter. If you installed everything from packages, I would expect them all to match (unless SuSE's quality control has really gone down as of late ;). Perhaps something is still around from when you built things from source. Did you at any point build your own Python? On a number of Linux distributions (probably including SuSE, but I don't know for sure), things installed from source are under the /usr/local tree. To diagnose this, you could see if anything is getting pulled in from there (rather than from the packaged stuff, which wouldn't be under /usr/local). For instance "whereis python", will tell you which python is being used. When you import a Python module, you can use __file__ to see where it was imported from. For example: >>> import pylab >>> pylab.__file__ Hope that at least offers some next steps for tracking this down. Cheers, Mike mark starnes wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm running Suse10.2 and installing packages using Yast (after much pain > trying to install Numpy and Scipy without it!). After installing (and > re-installing) Matplotlib in this way, I get the error, > > ImportError: matplotlib/ft2font.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_GetSize > > when I attempt to import pylab. > > Can anybody help me fix this? I couldn't find any help on the > matplotlib site and my .matplotlib directory is empty. > > Oh, I'm also a bit new to Linux - please be patient! > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
