Merge pull request #11957 from tacaswell/fix_unicode_traceback

jklymak · web-flow · commit 3156af0b75bf · 2018-08-31T21:36:41.000-07:00
FIX: fix importing backend with non-ascii characters
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py
@@ -12,10 +12,11 @@
 _log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 backend = matplotlib.get_backend()
-_backend_loading_tb = "".join(
+# the `str` calls here are to make non-ascii paths work on python2
+_backend_loading_tb = str("").join(
     line for line in traceback.format_stack()
     # Filter out line noise from importlib line.
-    if not line.startswith('  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap'))
+    if not line.startswith(str('  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap')))
 
 
 def pylab_setup(name=None):
