Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

On 2012/09/07 7:52 PM, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> in your jmkfile.py you should have
>
> from  pylab  import  *

Or to be more pythonic, import only what you actually need in a given 
module, e.g.,

from matplotlib import rc

Eric

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> Paul
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> On 9/8/12 12:45 AM, Jody Klymak wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Sorry to ask a dumb python newbie question, but the problem arose while reading the matplotlib documentation, and an hour or so on the internet didnt' help, so I felt it was fair-ish game to post here.
>>
>> Inhttp://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/customize_rc.html  it says:
>> """
>> If you like to work interactively, and need to create different sets
>> of defaults for figures (eg one set of defaults for publication, one
>> set for interactive exploration), you may want to define some
>> functions in a custom module that set the defaults, eg
>>
>> def set_pub():
>>      rc('font', weight='bold')    # bold fonts are easier to see
>>
>> Then as you are working interactively, you just need to do
>>
>>>>> set_pub()
>> """
>>
>> Which I thought was great, because I'd like to have some presets for different journals.  However, saving the def into a file (jmkfigure.py) and calling
>>
>> from jmkfigure import *
>>
>> set_pub()
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>> yields the error: "NameError: global name 'rc' is not defined"
>>
>> I tried importing matplotlib and rc into jmkfigure.py, but to no avail.
>>
>> I appreciate this is a scoping issue with python, but I can't figure out how to set rc from within an external module.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Cheers,   Jody
>>
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