Re: [Matplotlib-users] error in savefig with wxAgg backend

Hi Mike, thanks for the tip. I will try it. I'm using 0.91.2.

Thanks,
Jeff

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From: Michael Droettboom [mailto:md...@st...] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 5:06 AM
To: Jef...@se...
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Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] error in savefig with wxAgg backend

What version of matplotlib are you using?  I have a vague recollection 
that this was fixed at one point.

In any case, you should be able to get around this by casting your 
filename to a string as such:

self.figure.savefig(str(image_file))

Hope that works for you,
Mike

Jeff Peery wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to use savefig in my wx app and I'm using wxAgg backend. I'm 
> getting this error:
> 
>  
> 
> FILE .maplotlib\backends\backend_bases.py, line 397 in print_png
> 
> Self.get_renderer()._renderer.write_png(filename,
self.figure.dpi.dpi.get())
> 
> TypeError: cannot return std::string from Unicode object
> 
>  
> 
> I'm simply calling this:
> 
>  
> 
> self.figure.savefig(image_file,
> 
>                             facecolor='w',
> 
>                             edgecolor='w')
> 
>  
> 
> How do I fix this problem? Thanks.
> 
>  
> 
> Jeff
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