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

[Warren W. <war...@en...>]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:45 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@st...> wrote:

>  The minimum requirement of the 1.1 series is still Python 2.4, believe it
> or not, though I'm not sure practically what the minimum numpy is.
>


It is at least 1.4; see this thread:

http://old.nabble.com/Upgraded-to-1.1.0,-now-only-line-graphs-work!-td32833484.html

Warren



>
> The next major release (which will include Python 3 support) bumps the
> minimum requirement up to Python 2.6.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 05/11/2012 05:32 PM, Warren Weckesser wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:17 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
>>
>>
>
> You will need Python 2.5 or later to use the 'with' statement.  I think
> that is already a requirement of matplotlib, and this page--which says
> 2.4--is not up to date:
>     http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html
> I'm sure the minimum version of numpy given there (1.1) is also wrong.
>
> Warren
>
>
>  best,
>> --
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