Matplotlib import fail

Tobais,

In the future please send all messages like this to the user mailing list (cc'd)

Try using the 1.4.1rc1 release candidate, there are windows installers
on sourceforge. If that does not work, please open a new github
issue.

Tom

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On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Tobias Landwehr <Dolly-Klonschaf@...380...> wrote:

Greetings Thomas,

I am sorry to disturb you, but I found on github, that you could've already
provided a solution to my problem almost three weeks ago. I couldn't really
understand the way how to solve the prob, which is the reason I decided to
write you.

I am currently working with Python 2.7.2 and want to import the matplotlib.
Problems arise obviously since my username-folder contains a non-ascii sign
(german Ä). I would prefer to not setup a second user and the user's folder
shouldn't/can't be renamed.

If you could find some time to deal with the problem over the weekend or
give me a hint, how to solve it, I would be really grateful. Below you'll
find the fail report.

Many thanks in advance, Tobias

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Python27\workspace\ITT\src\itt\statistics\block01\LandCover.py",
line 7, in <module>
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 1048, in
<module>
    rcParams = rc_params()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 897, in
rc_params
    fname = matplotlib_fname()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 759, in
matplotlib_fname
    configdir = _get_configdir()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 630, in
_get_configdir
    return _get_config_or_cache_dir(_get_xdg_config_dir())
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 555, in
_get_xdg_config_dir
    path = get_home()
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 323, in
wrapper
    ret = func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\__init__.py", line 509, in
_get_home
    path = os.path.expanduser("~")
  File "C:\Python27\lib\ntpath.py", line 310, in expanduser
    return userhome + path[i:]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0x84 in position 16:
ordinal not in range(128)

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Thomas Caswell
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