Random Fatal Python error with Python 3.x about pyplot.jl HOT 6 CLOSED

Weird, I've never seen that error before. I'm guessing happens during pyinitialize, perhaps during the call to PySys_SetArgvEx, and is PyCall problem rather than a PyPlot problem.

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BTW, the Python version is 3.3

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If I change the Python version to 2.x, the errors are gone and everthing works perfect.

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Ah, I see. I don't have matplotlib etcetera installed for Python 3.x (most scientific/technical users seem to be with 2.7 still), so it will be a while before I can test this, but I need to get around to it at some point (also for JuliaPy/PyCall.jl#24).

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On archlinux, /usr/bin/python is a symlink to python3. I would suggest to explicitely initialize for python2, by adding a call to

pyinitialize("python2")

in PyPlot.jl, until the code is fixed for python 3.

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python2 doesn't exist on all systems (e.g. MacOS doesn't have Python installed under that name).

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