On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:07 PM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Announcement: mpltools 0.1
>>> ==========================
>>>
>>> mpltools is a package of tools for matplotlib. For the most part, these
>>> tools are only loosely-connected in functionality, but there are two that
>>> may prove particularly useful:
>>>
>>> Styles and plot2rst
>>> -------------------
>>>
>>>
>> Tony, is there a way to "switch" styles rather than chain them. Eg, if
>> I do:
>>
>> import mpltools.style as style
>> style.use('ieee.transaction')
>> ...make_a_plot_...
>> style.use('ggplot')
>> . ..make_a_plot_...
>>
>> I seem to get the chained behavior of the second style updating the
>> first. I'd like to use this in a demo context where I can illustrate the
>> styles separately, so it would be nice to go back to the defaults.
>>
>> Interestingly, I tried to do:
>>
>> import matplotlib
>> matplotlib.rc_file_defaults()
>> plt.close('all')
>> hist(rand(10000), 100)
>>
>> but that simply stopped figures from raising all together (I don't think
>> this is related to mpltools, but to something funny going on on my system).
>>
>> So in summary, it would be nice to be able to do something like:
>>
>> style.use('default')
>>
>> or:
>>
>> style.reset()
>>
>> which would take you back to a clean slate.
>>
>>
> I've been using plt.rcdefaults() for that purpose. Does that work for you?
>
> -Tony
>
Err, maybe I read your question wrong. Were you just suggesting that I wrap
`matplotlib.rc_file_defaults()` in a new function called `style.reset()`,
or were you suggesting a function that does something different than
`rc_file_defaults`?
-Tony
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