Trying to get a colleague to start using python, he ran into trouble,
getting an error exit whenever he tried to fire up
ipython -pylab
After much searching, he figured it out... it appears that a small patch may be
in order. Here is his note :
> I found it: I have a font installed in my personal fonts
> directory that has non-integral sides for the "bounding box"
> of the font.
>
> Fortunately, it seems like once I move my ~/.fonts
> directory "off to the side" and then run
>
> ipython -pylab
>
> then some of that configuration info must be cached, since I
> am able to move my .fonts file back and still have my ipython
> -pylab come up.
>
> The offending line is in the return statement below
>
> #Convert string the a python type
> _to_int = int
> _to_float = float
> _to_str = str
>
> def _to_list_of_ints(s):
> s = s.replace(',', ' ')
> return [_to_int(val) for val in s.split()]
>
> and I think a fix would be along the lines of Alan's remark:
>
> return [_to_int(_to_float(val)) for val in s.split()]
>
> This is in the file
>
> /glb/apps/sss/epd/2.5.4.2.30201/lib/python2.5/site-packages/ma
> tplotlib-0.98.5.2n1-py2.5-linux-x86_64.egg/matplotlib/afm.py
>
> Anyway, it works for me.
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