You have an afm font file with a badly formed header.  I thought this was
fixed on the master branch though....

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 4:51 PM knight91 <knigh...@web.de> wrote:

> Python claims to be unable to import pyplot. Apart from that, it has been
> running absolutely fine.
>
> I tried different versions of matplotlib, the one provided in my package
> manager (apt-get) and two (stable & last stable) releases compiled from
> source. I reinstalled all packages containting "python" on my system
> (Ubuntu
> 14.04 LTS). This error still occurs and prevents me from using pyplot.
>
> What should I try next?
>
> Python 2.7.6 (default, Jun 22 2015, 17:58:13)
> [GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
> >>> from matplotlib import pyplot
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 24, in
> <module>
>   import matplotlib.colorbar
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 29, in
> <module>
>   import matplotlib.collections as collections
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/collections.py", line 23, in
> <module>
>   import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 50,
> in
> <module>
>   import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 11, in
> <module>
>   import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1356,
> in <module>
>   _rebuild()
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1341,
> in _rebuild
>   fontManager = FontManager()
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1008,
> in __init__
>   self.afmlist = createFontList(self.afmfiles, fontext='afm')
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 563,
> in
> createFontList
>   font = afm.AFM(fh)
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 342, in
> __init__
>   parse_afm(fh)
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 330, in
> parse_afm
>   dcmetrics_ascii, dcmetrics_name = _parse_char_metrics(fh)
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 203, in
> _parse_char_metrics
>   bbox = _to_list_of_floats(vals[3][2:])
> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/matplotlib/afm.py", line 69, in
> _to_list_of_floats
>   return [_to_float(val) for val in s.split()]
> ValueError: invalid literal for float(): 19#
>
>
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