Re: [Matplotlib-users] ANN: mpltools 0.1 release

[Tony Yu <ts...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:07 PM, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:
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>> Announcement: mpltools 0.1
>> ==========================
>>
>> mpltools is a package of tools for matplotlib. For the most part, these
>> tools are only loosely-connected in functionality, but there are two that
>> may prove particularly useful:
>>
>> Styles and plot2rst
>> -------------------
>>
>>
> Tony, is there  a way to "switch" styles rather than chain them.  Eg, if I
> do:
>
>     import mpltools.style as style
>     style.use('ieee.transaction')
>     ...make_a_plot_...
>     style.use('ggplot')
> .    ..make_a_plot_...
>
> I seem to get the chained behavior of the second style updating the first.
>  I'd like to use this in a demo context where I can illustrate the styles
> separately, so it would be nice to go back to the defaults.
>
> Interestingly, I tried to do:
>
>     import matplotlib
>     matplotlib.rc_file_defaults()
>     plt.close('all')
>     hist(rand(10000), 100)
>
> but that simply stopped figures from raising all together (I don't think
> this is related to mpltools, but to something funny going on on my system).
>
> So in summary, it would be nice to be able to do something like:
>
>     style.use('default')
>
> or:
>
>     style.reset()
>
> which would take you back to a clean slate.
>
>
I've been using plt.rcdefaults() for that purpose. Does that work for you?

-Tony