Allow setting MATPLOTLIBRC by process substitution. by anntzer · Pull Request #9570 · matplotlib/matplotlib · GitHub
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Allow setting MATPLOTLIBRC by process substitution. - #9570

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@anntzer anntzer commented Oct 25, 2017

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This makes (e.g.)

$ MATPLOTLIBRC=<(echo 'savefig.transparent: true') python foo.py

use savefig.transparent: true as contents of matplotlibrc for the
given process (on POSIX).

This generalizes the MPLBACKEND mechanism to all rcParams (although the
lack of "cascading" rc-files means that the "normal" rc-file is
completely hidden -- but that's a separate issue).

Closes #6884.

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  • Has Pytest style unit tests
  • Code is PEP 8 compliant
  • New features are documented, with examples if plot related
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  • Added an entry to doc/users/next_whats_new/ if major new feature (follow instructions in README.rst there)
  • Documented in doc/api/api_changes.rst if API changed in a backward-incompatible way

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tacaswell commented Oct 31, 2017

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@tacaswell tacaswell added this to the v2.2 milestone Oct 31, 2017
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This basically follows normal rules of shell process substitution (on shells that support them). I can add a whatsnew saying that that's supported but I don't really want to explain what process substitution is...

Also, note that this very technically breaks code that assumes that you can read from matplotlib_fname() again (because it's a pipe). In particular, this means that matplotlib.rc_params() will return the internal defaults rather than the one loaded from matplotlib_fname(). In practice this is not a problem because you can just use rc_file_defaults() (which caches a copy of the dict) instead.

Probably all these rc_* functions should also be cleaned up too...

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Allow setting MATPLOTLIBRC by process substitution.
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This makes (e.g.)
```
$ MATPLOTLIBRC=<(echo 'savefig.transparent: true') python foo.py
```
use `savefig.transparent: true` as contents of matplotlibrc for the
given process (on POSIX).

This generalizes the MPLBACKEND mechanism to all rcParams (although the
lack of "cascading" rc-files means that the "normal" rc-file is
completely hidden).
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anntzer commented Jan 15, 2018 •
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Added some (minimal) docs (as stated above it seems pointless to explain what process substitution is in the mpl docs).
Not release critical by any means but seems trivial enough to keep for 2.2...

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efiring merged commit b67098b into matplotlib:master Jan 16, 2018
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anntzer deleted the mplrc branch January 16, 2018 08:10
@QuLogic QuLogic modified the milestones: needs sorting, v2.2.0 Feb 12, 2018
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