On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Paul Ivanov <pivanov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I wanted to highlight Matthew Emmett's (memmett) PR in progress [1] that
> brings the ability to switch between rcParams.
>
> Matthew's implementation started with just being able to read in and use
> an rcParam file, and I suggested the idea of having a context manager,
> that would allow you to do something like:
>
> with rc_context(fname):
> plt.plot()
> ...
>
> and have the rcParams restored outside of the context.
>
> I know there have been a few threads (can't find links now for some
> reason) and in-person discussions in the past about having this kind of
> ability in matplotlib, and having an idea of "styles", and Tony Yu
> implemented a variant of this on top of matplotlib in mpltools [2], but
> I wanted to ping the list here for other ideas and feelings about such
> functionality (if anyone can find pointers to previous discussions, that
> would be very welcome).
>
> 1. https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/861
> 2. https://github.com/tonysyu/mpltools
>
>
You will need Python 2.5 or later to use the 'with' statement. I think
that is already a requirement of matplotlib, and this page--which says
2.4--is not up to date:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/installing.html
I'm sure the minimum version of numpy given there (1.1) is also wrong.
Warren
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