MacOSX backend breaks for matplotlib 1.4 after importing seaborn #3470
Description
Reported also in mwaskom/seaborn#282
Environment: OS X Mavericks
Anaconda python distribution (python 2.7.8)
IPython 2.2.0
Seaborn 0.4
In an ipython terminal or qtconsole, it works with running
n [1]: %matplotlib
Using matplotlib backend: MacOSX
In [2]: from pylab import *
In [3]: plot(range(5))
Out[3]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x10d73dd50>]However, after importing seaborn, the macosx backend breaks
In [4]: import seaborn as sns
In [5]: plot(range(5))
Out[5]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x10c10eb90>]
In [6]: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 59, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py", line 1079, in draw
func(*args)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 59, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axes/_base.py", line 2092, in draw
a.draw(renderer)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/artist.py", line 59, in draw_wrapper
draw(artist, renderer, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1105, in draw
renderer)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py", line 1054, in _get_tick_bboxes
extent = tick.label1.get_window_extent(renderer)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 741, in get_window_extent
bbox, info, descent = self._get_layout(self._renderer)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/text.py", line 311, in _get_layout
ismath=False)
File "/Users/zhangxiaowei/anaconda/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/backends/backend_macosx.py", line 166, in get_text_width_height_descent
six.text_type(s), family, size, weight, style)
TypeError: bad argument type for built-in operationInterestingly, using %matplotlib inline in an IPython notebook works fine. Also, using another backend such as "Qt4Agg" works fine in IPython terminal or qtconsole.
After downgrading matplotlib to 1.3.1, the issue goes away.