I am pretty sure this is already fixed. Heck, I think I was the one who reported it a year ago. We bumped the minimum required version for six from 1.3 to 1.4 to accomodate the unichr() function or something like that.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/setupext.py#L1179

Yeah... take a peek at blame...

You changed it from 1.5 to 1.3 back in March.

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See this commit by @mdboom :
e1053a6

I wish there was a way to know which PR pulled in a particular commit.

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Yeah... take a peek at blame...

You changed it from 1.5 to 1.3 back in March.

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https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/setupext.py#L1179

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Looking at the history it was changed back a few days later 197d794

if you search on the has it will find the PR

#2879

I knew I reported something like this awhile back! I wonder why your
experimental build/testing worked at that time? Maybe the use of unichr()
snuck in afterwards?

Do our Travis tests use the minimum packages? We probably could have caught
this earlier, I think.

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if you search on the has it will find the PR

#2879 #2879

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six.unichr was first used in a00196b (may) so 1.3 was ok in march. Apparently either fixed my path issues or ubuntu updated what they shipped in between.

@WeatherGod #2852 this the issue that induced the first minimum version to be added.

Not sure what version travis uses, probably what ever is on the system.

And we have now spent at least a factor of 5 more time discussing this than it took to fix;)

I wish there was a way to know which PR pulled in a particular commit.

@WeatherGod - Put the commit into the search bar when in matplotlib/matplotlib - all issues which refer will be returned, including the PR that implemented it...

You're welcome 😉

Hi folks - upgraded six, still throwing following error: ' from six import unichr
ImportError: cannot import name unichr' - any ideas? Version is six-1.8.0 for python 2.7

In [2]: from six import unichr

In [3]: six.__version__
'1.8.0'

Sounds like the version of six you upgraded to is not the version that is being found.

Thanks - imported another six.py file and that seemed to do it. Matplotlib
seems a bit buggy at first, but up and running now.
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In [2]: from six import unichr
In [3]: six.version'1.8.0'

Sounds like the version of six you upgraded to is not the version that is
being found.

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Do you have any specific issues apart for the six version issue?
If so please open a new issue with the details.