ilya@ilya-GE40-2OL:~$ python
Python 2.7.12 (default, Nov 19 2016, 06:48:10) 
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 29, in <module>
    import matplotlib.colorbar
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 36, in <module>
    import matplotlib.contour as contour
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/contour.py", line 22, in <module>
    import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1439, in <module>
    _rebuild()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1418, in _rebuild
    fontManager = FontManager()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1053, in __init__
    self.ttffiles = findSystemFonts(paths) + findSystemFonts()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 336, in findSystemFonts
    for f in get_fontconfig_fonts(fontext):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 303, in get_fontconfig_fonts
    return [fname for fname in _call_fc_list()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/functools32/functools32.py", line 400, in wrapper
    result = user_function(*args, **kwds)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 284, in _call_fc_list
    out = subprocess.check_output(['fc-list', '--format=%{file}'])
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subprocess32.py", line 629, in check_output
    process = Popen(stdout=PIPE, *popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subprocess32.py", line 825, in __init__
    restore_signals, start_new_session)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subprocess32.py", line 1387, in _execute_child
    for exe in executable_list)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subprocess32.py", line 1386, in <genexpr>
    executable_list = tuple(fs_encode(exe)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/subprocess32.py", line 1385, in <genexpr>
    for dir in path_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/posixpath.py", line 73, in join
    path += '/' + b
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xd0 in position 11: ordinal not in range(128)
>>> import matplotlib
>>> matplotlib.__version__
'2.0.0rc2'