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zsynacl opened this issue Nov 3, 2015 · 7 comments
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TclErro : could not open matplotlib.gif #5388

zsynacl opened this issue Nov 3, 2015 · 7 comments
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@zsynacl
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zsynacl commented Nov 3, 2015

Hi everyone, I used matplotlib in my project but I encounted a problem and I can't know what happend exactly. Here is my command line:

App\python.exe file\contour.py "C:\Documents and Settings\fanping\桌面\FOR3D_PARALLEL\print.out" 0 15000

and when I excuted, I got an error:

    self.tk.call(('image', 'create', imgtype, name,) + options)
_tkinter.TclError: 
couldn't open "C:\Documents and Settings\fanping\桌面\FOR3D_PARALLEL\程序源码\PFOR3D\Release\For3D_Demo\PortablePython\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\images\matplotlib.gif":
no such file or directory

current directory is

C:\Documents and Settings\fanping\桌面\FOR3D_PARALLEL\程序源码\PFOR3D\Release\For3D_Demo\PortablePython>

I used this in Portable Python whose python version is 2.7.6 and the matplotlib version is 1.3.1. Actually I got a result when the environment path does not have any Chinese charactors. eg. C:\PortablePython\

looking forward to any solution
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mdboom commented Nov 3, 2015

C:\Documents and Settings\fanping\桌面\FOR3D_PARALLEL\程序源码\PFOR3D\Release\For3D_Demo\PortablePython\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\mpl-data\images\matplotlib.gif

should exist -- it is distributed as part of matplotlib. One of the ways this sometimes happens is if you install one version of matplotlib on top of another. You could try deleting C:\Documents and Settings\fanping\桌面\FOR3D_PARALLEL\程序源码\PFOR3D\Release\For3D_Demo\PortablePython\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\ and reinstalling matplotib or reinstalling your Python environment.

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zsynacl commented Nov 4, 2015

Hey, mdboom, thanks for your comment. But I think there maybe some misunderstanding.
I didn't install any other version of matplotlib and I also checked the file matplotlib.gif, it does exist. I didn't change any thing of matplotlib.

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mdboom commented Nov 4, 2015

How did you install matplotlib? Whatever method you used seems to have missed that file.

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zsynacl commented Nov 4, 2015

nope, I used portable python. I ensure that the file matplotlib.gif is just there.
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I used this in Portable Python whose python version is 2.7.6 and the matplotlib version is 1.3.1. Actually I got a result when the environment path does not have any Chinese charactors. eg. C:\PortablePython\

looking forward to any solution

Might this be a bug in tk? Using conda + python3 + non-ascii path it works correctly, but trying to to the same thing with python2 gives me errors even starting up python.

Can you try with any python 3.4 or 3.5?

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zsynacl commented Nov 4, 2015

hey tacaswell, I can't control the environment. Maybe I should just suggest the user to use English-only path...

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anntzer commented Jan 3, 2019

matplotlib.gif no longer exists since #5626.

@anntzer anntzer closed this as completed Jan 3, 2019
@QuLogic QuLogic added this to the v2.0.0 milestone Jan 3, 2019
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