Re: [matplotlib-devel] switching rc files (and discussion of styles)

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to highlight Matthew Emmett's (memmett) PR in progress [1] that
> brings the ability to switch between rcParams.
>
> Matthew's implementation started with just being able to read in and use
> an rcParam file, and I suggested the idea of having a context manager,
> that would allow you to do something like:
>
>  with rc_context(fname):
>      plt.plot()
>      ...
>
> and have the rcParams restored outside of the context.
>
> I know there have been a few threads (can't find links now for some
> reason) and in-person discussions in the past about having this kind of
> ability in matplotlib, and having an idea of "styles", and Tony Yu
> implemented a variant of this on top of matplotlib in mpltools [2], but
> I wanted to ping the list here for other ideas and feelings about such
> functionality (if anyone can find pointers to previous discussions, that
> would be very welcome).
>
> 1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/861
> 2. https://github.com/tonysyu/mpltools
>
> best,
> --
> Paul Ivanov
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>
Such a feature would clean up the test code considerably.

Ben Root