Re: [matplotlib-devel] Building documentation and matplotlibrc

[Jouni K. S. <jk...@ik...>]

Ben Gamari <bg...@gm...> writes:

> An absolute path is necesary because the current working directory
> changes for each example.

Oh, right, the examples are in a lot of different subdirectories.

> I'm very confused how you found that specifying a relative path in
> download.path worked. If the cwd changes as seen above then the
> documentation was entirely correct in claiming an absolute path is
> necessary.

I just tested that the relative path works fine by making the path
relative and trying cbook.get_sample_data; it's just not much use if
your current working directory keeps changing.

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