Re: [matplotlib-devel] ANN matplotlib-0.53

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"gary" == gary ruben <gr...@bi...> writes:
> 
> 
>     gary> I just uninstalled the 0.53b release and installed 0.53
>     gary> There's still a problem on my Win98 system, but now it seems
>     gary> related to the new font manager:
> 
> This is a bug (clearly!). I didn't catch it in my tests because it
> only arises when you get an OSError on a win32 registry call, which I
> never got.  I believe Paul lifted this section of the code from
> ttfquery.  For a quick fix, in the win32InstalledFonts function, try
> replacing
> 
>         try:
>             local = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, fontdir)
>         except OSError:
>             pass
> 
> with 
> 
>         try:
>             local = _winreg.OpenKey(_winreg.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, fontdir)
>         except OSError:
>             continue
> 
> and let me know how things go.
> 
> Paul, is the continue the correct behavior here?

Yes.  I'll fix it.

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