Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: Parts of plot lagging from previous frame in animation

[Joachim B. H. <c.j...@fy...>]

John Hunter wrote:
>>>>>>"Steve" == Steve Chaplin <ste...@ya...> writes:
> 
>     Steve> John, I've been caught out a few times with this too! I
>     Steve> think we should change it so -d<nonexistentbackend> raises
>     Steve> an error, what do you think?
> 
> I'm inclined to leave it as is though, and deal with it as a annoying
> problem.  Users who are passing -dBackend flags are probably
> sophisticated enough to survive this annoyance.  But if you have a
> clean solution, I'm open to it.

Deprecate -d<backend> and introduce --mpl.backend=<backend>? Perhaps 
extend to allow overriding all .matplotlibrc directives, so you can do 
--mpl.verbose.level=debug and so on?

I think that would be clean, and if you like the idea I can create a 
patch for it. But I saw -d mentioned as matlab compatible, so if that is 
important then maybe not.

-j.

PS. my excuses for not preserving CCs earlier.