Re: [matplotlib-devel] Add some caching to texmanager.py?

[Fernando P. <Fer...@co...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Fernando" == Fernando Perez <Fer...@co...> writes:
> 
> 
>     Fernando> Stephen Walton wrote:
>     >> Fernando Perez wrote:
>     >>> Well, it could be something like $HOME/.tex.cache, where $HOME
>     >>> can be determined via a routine like the below (this is what
>     >>> ipython uses to try and guess a sensible value for $HOME):
>     >> I *like* it.
> 
>     Fernando> Though I'd personally vote for matplotlib holding
>     Fernando> $HOME/.matplotlib/ as a directory, and putting in there
>     Fernando> a tex.cache dir, the matplotlibrc file, and anything
>     Fernando> else it may need in the future.
> 
> I am in the process of moving all of matplotlib's config files and
> outputs to HOME/.matplotlib.

Great!

> what I am really after is a simple print >> sys.stderr.  Is there
> anything wrong with using sys.stderr for this kind of thing, error
> mavens?  I know when we discussed this many moons ago we converged on
> using exceptions and the warnings module everywhere.  But now I am a
> bit confounded by the inability to make the warnings print pretty
> messages that the typical user will read and understand.  Or is there
> a way to tell warning.warn to just print the error message with no
> lineno/traceback info?

Dunno, sorry.   In ipython, I have a trivial warn() routine which is just a 
print >> sys.stderr wrapper.  I've never used the stdlib's warnings module.

Cheers,

f