ERROR: ReadOnlyMemoryError()

[cbruder]

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After a recent Pkg.update() I get the follwing error

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julia> using Plots

julia> pyplot()
Plots.PyPlotBackend()

julia> plot(rand(100))
Error showing value of type Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}:
ERROR: ReadOnlyMemoryError()
julia>

Typing control-d after that results in a segmentation fault.

[bgodard]

https://github.com/JuliaPy/PyPlot.jl/issues/291