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

[Jody K. <jk...@uv...>]

Ack, OK, to answer my own question...

Somehow ipython was caching the definition of jmkfigure, so changing the module in the jmkfigure.py file did not actually change the version ipython was using. Running a new version of ipython, it worked fine.  

Sorry for the chatter, and thanks for the pointers..
 
Cheers,   Jody

On Sep 8, 2012, at  6:18 AM, Jody Klymak <jk...@uv...> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thats what I thought too:
> 
> I have: jmkfigure.py:
> 
> ===============
> from pylab import *
> 
> def jmkfigure():
>     rc('figure',figsize=(3+3/8,8.5/2),dpi=96)
>     rc('font',size=9);
> ===========
> 
> and test.py:
> 
> =========
> from pylab import *
> 
> from jmkfigure import *
> 
> jmkfigure()
> figure(1)
> plot([1,2,3]);
> 
> show()
> ==============
> 
> >>> run test.py
> 
> yields a traceback ending w/:
> 
> ===========
> Users/jklymak/teaching/Phy411/project/jmkfigure.py in jmkfigure()
>       1 from pylab import *
> ----> 2 
>       3 def jmkfigure():
>       4     rc('figure',figsize=(3+3/8,8.5/2),dpi=96)
>       5     rc('font',size=9);
> 
> NameError: global name 'rc' is not defined
> ========
> 
> Same error if I just import "rc" from matplot lib....
> 
> Is it some strange set up problem?  If I put the same def in test.py it works fine...
> 
> Thanks,  Jody
> 
> On Sep 7, 2012, at  22:52 PM, Paul Tremblay <pau...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> in your jmkfile.py you should have
>> 
>> from pylab import *
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>> 
>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> In http://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()
>>> 
>>> 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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