On Friday 20 July 2007 12:31:00 pm Brian Granger wrote:
> > Damn, that is really cool. So you can generate default config files from
> > the MPLConfig instance. We create a default matplotlibrc file from a
> > template, setting default backend and numerix values based on what is
> > available on the users system. It looks like it would be even easier with
> > your scheme: import MPLConfig in setup.py, set the attributes, dump to a
> > default config file.
>
> My thought for IPython is to have defaults set in the traited config
> class itself so you wouldn't even have to do the second step. Just
> import MPLConfig and dump to a file. I too think this is one of the
> really nice benefits of this approach. Generating the default config
> file for IPython1 was becoming a real problem.
Although, the config files generated this way are not very well organized, due
to the seemingly random order that a dict's items are accessed. Look at the
mpl3.conf file that is generated with Fernando's proof-of-concept:
interactive = False
backend = 'TkAgg'
[figure]
edgecolor = 'white'
facecolor = 0.75
dpi = 100
figsize = [6.4000000000000004, 4.7999999999999998]
[[subplot]]
top = 0.90000000000000002
right = 0.90000000000000002
bottom = 0.10000000000000001
left = 0.125
[lines]
linewidth = 2.0
linestyle = '-'
[InitOnly]
numerix = 'numpy'
That is not too bad for small config files, but matplotlib's selection of rc
parameters is pretty large, and it is nice to have them appear in the file in
a meaningful order.
Darren
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