Problem with scipy superpack and "get_fontconfig_fonts" in matplotlib.pyplot #39

Hi,

Firstly : Thanks for providing this package, it's wonderful. I encouraged the students in my class to use it for our installations. However, one of them is having trouble that I can't seem to wrap my head around.

She installed via the shell script, and everything works except pyplot. When running pyplot, we get :

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 26, in
import matplotlib.colorbar
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/colorbar.py", line 33, in
import matplotlib.collections as collections
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/collections.py", line 26, in
import matplotlib.backend_bases as backend_bases
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/backend_bases.py", line 54, in
import matplotlib.textpath as textpath
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/textpath.py", line 18, in
import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1354, in
_rebuild()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 1339, in _rebuild
fontManager = FontManager()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 987, in init
self.ttffiles = findSystemFonts(paths) + findSystemFonts()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 316, in findSystemFonts
for f in get_fontconfig_fonts(fontext):
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg/matplotlib/font_manager.py", line 280, in get_fontconfig_fonts
for line in output.split('\n'):
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe5 in position 8918: ordinal not in range(128)

The directory contents are :

dhcp205-160-006:software maralalyari$ ls /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/
Jinja2-2.7.1-py2.7.egg patsy-0.2.1-py2.7.egg
MarkupSafe-0.18-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg pika-0.9.13-py2.7.egg
Pygments-1.6-py2.7.egg pip-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
README pymc-2.2-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg
Sphinx-1.2b1-py2.7.egg pyparsing-1.5.7-py2.7.egg
docutils-0.11-py2.7.egg pytz-2013d-py2.7.egg
easy-install.pth pyzmq-13.1.0-py2.7-macosx-10.6-intel.egg
ipython-1.0.0-py2.7.egg readline-6.2.4.1-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg
ipython-2.0.0_dev-py2.7.egg scikit_learn-0.14_git-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg
matplotlib-1.4.x-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg scipy-0.14.0.dev_2a4ba40-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg
nose-1.3.0-py2.7.egg six-1.4.1-py2.7.egg
numpy-1.9.0.dev_c50e60d-py2.7-macosx-10.8-x86_64.egg statsmodels-0.6.0-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg
pandas-0.12.0_307_g3a2fe0b-py2.7-macosx-10.8-intel.egg tornado-3.1.1-py2.7.egg

The python installed is :

dhcp205-160-006:software maralalyari$ which python
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python
dhcp205-160-006:software maralalyari$ python -i
Python 2.7.5 (v2.7.5:ab05e7dd2788, May 13 2013, 13:18:45)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5666) (dot 3)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

Do you have any suggestions here?

Thanks,
Sal Rappoccio