#11526
this is my first attempt at Matplotlib, is the PR alright?

-Thank you!

Thanks so much for the PR. This really needs to pass the tests, and probably needs some new tests. If at all possible, setup the testing environment for your self, and run some of the tests that have failed (drill down in continuous-integration/travis-ci/pr, is usually the most straightforward). Its usually easiest to run one or two tests at a time i.e.

pytest -v lib/matplotlib/tests/test_tightlayout.py::test_badsubplotgrid

just runs that one test.

• https://matplotlib.org/devel/testing.html#testing
• https://matplotlib.org/devel/contributing.html

Let us know if you have any questions.

Also, please fill out the PR description.

@jklymak Hey, thank you for the guidance!

• i deleted my repository and cloned the matplotlib fork again, after following all the instructions on: https://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-git i ran 'py.test' to see if all the tests were passing before i made any changes and 'ImportError: cannot import name 'ft2font' is the error i get'. Please help me!!

• also matplotlib/doc-requirements.txt doesnt have all requirements like 'pytest'.
  PS: I made a separate virtual environment and ran 'pip install -r doc-requirements.txt' prior to following the instructions listed on https://matplotlib.org/faq/installing_faq.html#install-from-git.

-Thank you!

Oddly though when i do 'from matplotlib import ft2font' from within the same virtual environment it gets imported just fine, yet when i run 'py.test' it throws an import error.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41748464/pytest-cannot-import-module-while-python-can says not to put a init.py in tests when using pytest. - This worked for me although new errors show up.

-> ImportError: cannot import name 'check_figures_equal' and ImportError: cannot import name 'validate_markevery'. Am i doing something wrong?

Closing per decision in #11526.