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Bug summary
In interactive python3 'from matplotlib import animation' causes an error.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 87: ordinal not in range(128)
Code for reproduction
from matplotlib import animation
Actual outcome
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 737, in <module>
class ImageMagickWriter(ImageMagickBase, MovieWriter):
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 120, in wrapper
if writerClass.isAvailable():
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 730, in isAvailable
return super().isAvailable()
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 427, in isAvailable
return shutil.which(cls.bin_path()) is not None
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/animation.py", line 724, in bin_path
binpath = mpl._get_executable_info('magick').executable
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 384, in _get_executable_info
return impl([path, "--version"], r"^Version: ImageMagick (\S*)")
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py", line 324, in impl
args, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, universal_newlines=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 356, in check_output
**kwargs).stdout
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 425, in run
stdout, stderr = process.communicate(input, timeout=timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 850, in communicate
stdout = self.stdout.read()
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc2 in position 87: ordinal not in range(128)
Expected outcome
matplotlib.animation would be imported.
I am not sure it ever worked.
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
- Matplotlib version: 3.1.1
- Matplotlib backend (
print(matplotlib.get_backend())
): GTK3Agg - Python version: 3.6.8
- Jupyter version (if applicable):
- Other libraries:
Python3 came with the distribution and was updated with apt
matplotlib was installed with python3 -m pip install matplotlib. Updated with pip.
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