When I execute the following python instruction in python shell
>>>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
error occured and the error message show as follows,
"UnicodeDecodeError: ‘ascii‘ codec can‘t decode byte 0xea in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)"
Solution:
Before execution of import instruction, add this set of instructions:
>>> import sys
>>> reload(sys)
>>> sys.setdefaultencoding(‘utf-8‘)
Solution for Python Extention matplotlib.pyplot loading Error
原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/NetElite/p/4326831.html