Karen Tracey wrote:
> Hmm, the Ubuntu packaging for matplotlib seems to put a copy of
> matplotlibrc only in /etc, where, I gather, it will not ever be used by
> matplotlib? I guess one is supposed to copy it to one's home directory
> and do per-user customization there. For my case, where the code is
> running under Apache, I'd guess no matplotlibrc is being found so all
> defaults are being used.
Karen,
That seems a little odd; matplotlib doesn't look in /etc by default.
Although I run ubuntu, I have never used the ubuntu package, so I have
not run into this.
The default matplotlibrc has been stripped down to a bare minimum:
everything but the default backend selection is commented out.
You may have already discovered this, but in case you haven't, you can
find out where the active matplotlibrc is being found by using
matplotlib_fname():
In [1]:import matplotlib
In [2]:matplotlib.matplotlib_fname()
Out[2]:'/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc'
The docstring explains the search order:
Return the path to the rc file
Search order:
* current working dir
* environ var MATPLOTLIBRC
* HOME/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
* MATPLOTLIBDATA/matplotlibrc
Thank you for the test script. I have added it to the "unit"
subdirectory of matplotlib, after adding a short docstring. JDH may
want to modify or move it.
Eric
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