TexManager: transform bytes-object to string before searching for box information

tomspur · tomspur · commit dbb0115ef27c · 2017-04-09T17:38:13.000+02:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py b/lib/matplotlib/texmanager.py
@@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ def make_dvi_preview(self, tex, fontsize):
 
             # find the box extent information in the latex output
             # file and store them in ".baseline" file
-            m = TexManager._re_vbox.search(report)
+            m = TexManager._re_vbox.search(report.decode("utf-8"))
             with open(basefile + '.baseline', "w") as fh:
                 fh.write(" ".join(m.groups()))
 
