Importing the pylab module from matplotlib fails

[Eleanor (via google group)]

>>> import pylab 

Traceback (most recent call last): 
  File "<interactive input>", line 1, in <module> 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\pylab.py", line 1, in <module> 
    from matplotlib.pylab import * 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \pylab.py", line 206, in <module> 
    from matplotlib import mpl  # pulls in most modules 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \mpl.py", line 2, in <module> 
    from matplotlib import axis 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \axis.py", line 9, in <module> 
    import matplotlib.font_manager as font_manager 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \font_manager.py", line 1302, in <module> 
    _rebuild() 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \font_manager.py", line 1294, in _rebuild 
    pickle_dump(fontManager, _fmcache) 
  File "E:\PortablePython_1.1_py2.5.4\App\lib\site-packages\matplotlib \font_manager.py", line 939, in pickle_dump 
    pickle.dump(data, fh) 
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

It seems the font_maanger module needs to read/write files to the directory returned by

>>> matplotlib.get_configdir()

'H:\\.matplotlib'

which dosen't exist in a portable install.

The location of this directory can be changed with the MPLCONFIGDIR environment variable in a fixed install.

 http://groups.google.com/group/portablepython/browse_frm/thread/3c955ef49ab864a9

[anonymous]

Milestone Portable Python 1.2 deleted