[matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Joel B. Mohler
I'm getting a unicodeescape error importing matplotlib in the IPython notebook interface. The traceback is shown below. Annotate states that https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/commit/bd71341ff645e1e4eb7470a5d2a5541e73bf6d5f introduced the changes to __init__.py which appears to have ins

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 December 2013 04:55, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py in Verbose() > --> 252 for arg in map(six.u, sys.argv[1:]): > C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\six.pyc in u(s) > --> 468 return unicode(s, "unicode_escape") > UnicodeDecodeError: 'unico

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Joel B. Mohler
On 12/6/2013 12:45 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 6 December 2013 04:55, Joel B. Mohler > wrote: C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py in Verbose() --> 252 for arg in map(six.u, sys.argv[1:]): C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\six.pyc in u(s)

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Thomas Kluyver
On 6 December 2013 10:37, Joel B. Mohler wrote: > It seems to me that this changeset needs to be rolled back, but I don't > clearly see the problem that it was intended to fix. > I assume that someone wanted to work with the arguments as text (i.e. unicode) strings. A robust way to do this would

Re: [matplotlib-devel] unicodeescape traceback on build of latest master in IPython

2013-12-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
I'll bring this to @minrk's attention in the original issue (#2534) Mike On 12/06/2013 02:20 PM, Thomas Kluyver wrote: On 6 December 2013 10:37, Joel B. Mohler > wrote: It seems to me that this changeset needs to be rolled back, but I don't clearly see the pro