After a long period where things went OK (I mean here I could pip install packages and then use them in a jupyter notebook with the import statement), I ran into multiple problems recently.
I think this happened when I upgraded my anaconda install from Continuum Analytics (though not sure)
I get error reports for basic imports like pandas or matplotlib like
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-3-adcb0ce40833> in <module>()
1 # Plot softmax curves
----> 2 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site- packages/matplotlib/__init__.py in <module>()
1129
1130 # this is the instance used by the matplotlib classes
-> 1131 rcParams = rc_params()
1132
1133 if rcParams['examples.directory']:
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py in rc_params(fail_on_error)
973 return ret
974
--> 975 return rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error)
976
977
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site- packages/matplotlib/__init__.py in rc_params_from_file(fname, fail_on_error, use_default_template)
1098 parameters specified in the file. (Useful for updating dicts.)
1099 """
-> 1100 config_from_file = _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
1101
1102 if not use_default_template:
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site-packages/matplotlib/__init__.py in _rc_params_in_file(fname, fail_on_error)
1016 cnt = 0
1017 rc_temp = {}
-> 1018 with _open_file_or_url(fname) as fd:
1019 try:
1020 for line in fd:
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/contextlib.pyc in __enter__(self)
15 def __enter__(self):
16 try:
---> 17 return self.gen.next()
18 except StopIteration:
19 raise RuntimeError("generator didn't yield")
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/site- packages/matplotlib/__init__.py in _open_file_or_url(fname)
998 else:
999 fname = os.path.expanduser(fname)
-> 1000 encoding = locale.getdefaultlocale()[1]
1001 if encoding is None:
1002 encoding = "utf-8"
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/locale.pyc in getdefaultlocale(envvars)
541 else:
542 localename = 'C'
--> 543 return _parse_localename(localename)
544
545
/Users/peterhirt/anaconda/envs/tensorflow/lib/python2.7/locale.pyc in _parse_localename(localename)
473 elif code == 'C':
474 return None, None
--> 475 raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
476
477 def _build_localename(localetuple):
ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8
So, I tried to use a specific environment where I installed first the python version I wanted to use and then added things like tensorflow (which went very well)
I do this by
conda create tensorflow python=2.7
this creates me a environment called tensorflow and install python version 2.7
then I activate the envrionment by
source activate tensorflow
Then, I added matplotlib with
pip install matplotlib
and i get again this error
I am lost. I think it has to do with incompatible packages but I cannot go around this and solve it.
Can someone give me a helping hand please
Thanks in advance
Peter
