[matplotlib-devel] imread() in master branch doesn't work

Tried using plt.imread() today on a PNG file, and I am getting this PyCXX
error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/ben/Programs/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/pyplot.py", line 1746,
in imread
    return _imread(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/ben/Programs/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/image.py", line 1218,
in imread
    return handler(fd)
TypeError: PyCXX: Error creating object of type N2Py6ObjectE from (nil)

Using master branch on Python 2.7 on 32-bit Ubuntu Oneric.  Seems to happen
to both color and b&w images.  scipy.ndimage.imread() still works fine,
though.

Ben Root