Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplot crases because of XDG_CONFIG_HOME variable

[Paul Tremblay]

However, this really is a bug. I have spent about two hours trying to get
this to work on EC.

Where to I file bugs?

P.


On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremb...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I've discovered the problem and a fix. $HOME is set to /home/ptremblay,
> but /home/ptremblay does not exist. If I do:
>
> import os
> try:
>         import matplotlib
> except AttributeError as msg:
>         os.environ['HOME'] = '/apollo/env/Ssdf/var/home_config/'
>         import matplotlib
>
> Then I can import the library.
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Paul Tremblay <paulhtremb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I am using our companies pacaking system. The version of matplotlib is
>> 1.3.1, by the way.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Paul Hobson <pmhob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> How did you install matplotlib? I've had success using anaconda on cheap
>>> $7/month web servers before
>>> http://continuum.io/downloads
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Paul Tremblay 
>>> <paulhtremb...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am using matplotllib as part of web server. matplotlib causes my
>>>> server to crash with this error:
>>>>
>>>> File
>>>> "/apollo/env/Ssdf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>>>> 597, in _get_configdir
>>>>     return _get_config_or_cache_dir(_get_xdg_config_dir())
>>>>   File
>>>> "/apollo/env/Ssdf/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line
>>>> 534, in _get_xdg_config_dir
>>>>     return os.environ.get('XDG_CONFIG_HOME', os.path.join(get_home(),
>>>> '.config'))
>>>>   File
>>>> "/apollo/env/Ssdf/bin/../../../package/local_1/Linux-2.6c2.5-x86_64/Python27/Python27-487.0-0/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py",
>>>> line 77, in join
>>>>     elif path == '' or path.endswith('/'):
>>>> <type 'exceptions.AttributeError'>: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
>>>> 'endswith'
>>>>
>>>> I have no home directory on my server (and probably don't have the
>>>> permissions to create one). What is the correct way to fix this problem?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
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