On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:42:18 -0500, Ben Gamari <bgam...@gmail.com> wrote: > To try identifying where this happens I have tried putting some debug > output in RcParams.__setitem__(). Unfortunately this doesn't show anyone > setting examples.download after the initial loading of matplotlibrc. Any > ideas how/where this might get overridden? > Found it!
It seems that matplotlib's sphinx extension calls matplotlib.rcdefaults() after rendering each figure, thus resetting examples.download to True (as set in rcsetup.py). The documentation claims that this function will "Restore the default rc params - the ones that were created at matplotlib load time." Despite the apparent attempt at clarification in this docstring, it's still not clear what the "default rc params" actually are. Is this supposed to be the parameters loaded from matplotlibrc (which seems to be what the sphinx extension expects) or the factory default values? rcdefaults()'s implementation appears to implement the latter, updating rcParams from rcParamsDefault in rcsetup.py, which appears to describe the factory default values. Perhaps we should rcParamsDefault.update(rcParams) after loading matplotlibrc? - Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
