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@marcelm marcelm commented Sep 19, 2018

If I understand #11600 correctly, this is the order in which backends are tried. It would be nice to document this, especially for those who need to decide whether to override it.

If I understand #11600 correctly, this is the order in which backends are tried. It would be nice to document this, especially for those who need to decide whether to override it.
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👍 Thanks for the improvement! Anyone feel free to merge when the CI passes.

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Yes, very good idea. Ideally we would also document that in the What is a backend? section of the docs.

@ImportanceOfBeingErnest ImportanceOfBeingErnest modified the milestones: v3.1, v3.0.x Sep 19, 2018
@dstansby dstansby merged commit 20bfcff into matplotlib:master Sep 19, 2018
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Backport PR #12166 on branch v3.0.x (Document preference order for backend auto selection)
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