matplotlib/matplotlib — pull request #3532 by tacaswell (2014-09-18 01:03:06+00:00)
Title: BUG : skip looking up expanduser if unicode error

closes #3516 by ignoring the real problem.

The real problem seems to be in the core libary (
http://bugs.python.org/issue13207) to which the response was
'upgrade to python 3'.