Problems with "Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment." on MacoS
<p>I am running OS X 10.11.3, and I have installed Anaconda3-2.5.0-MacOSX-x86_64.pkg which includes Matplotlib 1.5.1.  When I try to import Matplotlib in Jupyter with the following:</p>

<pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as pp
</code></pre>

<p>I get a very long error message, beginning with the following:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>/Users/hgbauer/anaconda/lib/python3.5/site-packages/matplotlib/font_manager.py:273: UserWarning: Matplotlib is building the font cache using fc-list. This may take a moment.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The message never goes away, no matter how long I wait.</p>

<p>I’ve noticed in a related thread:</p>

<p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34771191/matplotlib-taking-time-when-being-imported">matplotlib taking time when being imported</a> </p>

<p>that the problem may require deleting the contents of ~/.cache/matplotlib, but in that situation, Matplotlib seems to have been installed separately rather than as a part of Anaconda.  </p>

<p>My question is this:</p>

<p>How can I access the ~/.cache/matplotlib file in Anaconda in order to delete the contents?</p>

<p>Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. </p>