Bug report

Bug summary

The method get_fontconfig_fonts() in matplotlib.font_manager should return a list of files according to the documentation but in my machine it returns a list with one element that represents all paths concatenated. The snippet comes from a stack-overflow answer.

Code for reproduction

import matplotlib.font_manager
flist = matplotlib.font_manager.get_fontconfig_fonts()
names = [matplotlib.font_manager.FontProperties(fname=fname).get_name() for fname in flist]
print(names)

Actual outcome

OSError: [Errno 36] File name too long

Expected outcome

It should return a list of names

Matplotlib version

• Operating System: Fedora 25
• Matplotlib Version: 2.0.0
• Python Version: 3.5
• Jupyter Version (if applicable):
• Other Libraries:

I think I used pip3 to install matplotlib but I'm not 100% sure.