Re: [matplotlib-devel] Release schedule for version 1.0.1?

[Daniel H. <dh...@gm...>]

Right, I was referring specifically to MATPLOTLIBDIR ;)

I was just pleased as punch to find it in the source code, documented or no
:)


On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:06 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Daniel Hyams <dh...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > It doesn't really insist on it right?  There are MATPLOTLIBDIR and
> > MPLCONFIGDIR environment variables.  The former is for the location of
> > mpl-data, and is not really documented well (that I could find, anyway,
> but
> > I found it in the source code), and MPLCONFIGDIR specifies where your
> > configuration files for matplotlib are.  This is where your font cache
> will
> > be, as well as your matplotlibrc.
> >
> > You can set these env variables within your code, before import of
> > matplotlib via os.environment.
>
> They should be better documented, but the MPLCONFIGDIR is in the FAQ
>
>
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/faq/troubleshooting_faq.html#matplotlib-directory-location
>



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