I'm not sure of the correct protocol (I just subscribed to report this problem), but the documentation said to report bugs here, and I saw no mention of this in Google searches of the list archives.
The exception_to_str() function was changed between mpl 1.1 and 1.2. In my installation I show it going from this: def exception_to_str(s = None): sh = StringIO.StringIO() if s is not None: print >>sh, s traceback.print_exc(file=sh) return sh.getvalue() to this: def exception_to_str(s=None): sh = io.StringIO() if s is not None: print(s, file=sh) traceback.print_exc(file=sh) return sh.getvalue() At first glance, the change seems innocuous enough, but I think it introduced an error. (It appears that mpl 1.2 is supposed to work on Python 2.7 and 3.x.) From a thread I started on comp.lang.python (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.general/733938), it appears that io.StringIO instances only accept Unicode strings as input. Unless v 1.2 is only supposed to run on Python 3 (that doesn't seem to be the case), you need to do something to convert the traceback module's output to Unicode before feeding to the io.StringIO object. Here's a simple demonstration of the problem: % python2.7 Python 2.7.5+ (2.7:93eb15779050, May 30 2013, 15:27:39) [GCC 4.4.6 [TWW]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import traceback, StringIO, io >>> s1 = StringIO.StringIO() >>> traceback.print_stack(file=s1) >>> print repr(s1.getvalue()) ' File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>\n' >>> >>> s2 = io.StringIO() >>> traceback.print_stack(file=s2) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line 269, in print_stack print_list(extract_stack(f, limit), file) File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line 23, in print_list ' File "%s", line %d, in %s' % (filename,lineno,name)) File "/home/skipm/x86_64-linux3.1/lib/python2.7/traceback.py", line 13, in _print file.write(str+terminator) TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str' Skip Montanaro s...@pobox.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users