UTF-8 error on import of matplotlib 1.5.1 #7879
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Bug summary
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I receive a UTF-8 error when importing matplotlib == 1.5.1 when installed either from conda or pip. I am using OSX 10.11.6 and Python 3.5.2. This laptop has Spanish locale support but this was done entirely within the US locale setting. There is no matplotlibrc file that I am aware of.
Code for reproduction
$ conda install matplotlib
$ python
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$ conda install matplotlib
$ python
> import matplotlib# Paste your code hereActual outcome
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$ python
Python 3.5.2 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Jul 2 2016, 17:52:12)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 4.2 (clang-425.0.28)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1131, in <module>
rcParams = rc_params()
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 975, in rc_params
return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1100, in rc_params_from_file
config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1018, in _rc_params_in_file
with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/contextlib.py", line 59, in __enter__
return next(self.gen)
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 1000, in _open_file_or_url
encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 558, in getdefaultlocale
return _parse_localename(localename)
File "//anaconda/envs/qiime2/lib/python3.5/locale.py", line 486, in _parse_localename
raise ValueError('unknown locale: %s' % localename)
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8Expected outcome
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A successful import of matplotlib
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Matplotlib version
1.5.1
- Matplotlib version, Python version and Platform (Windows, OSX, Linux ...)
Please see above
- How did you install Matplotlib and Python (pip, anaconda, from source ...)
Tried conda and pip.