[IPython-dev] Small config puzzle

Fernando Perez fperez.net at gmail.com
Sun Jun 3 16:11:13 EDT 2012


On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 12:00 PM, MinRK <benjaminrk at gmail.com> wrote:
> The Config file has no idea that rc is a dict (or that rc is an option at
> all).
>
> The only thing you can do in config files is assignment:
>
> c.InlineBackend.rc = {'savefig.dpi': 96}
>
> Traitlets are not involved at all in the config files or the construction of
> the config object, they determine how the config object (after it is
> constructed by config files and command-line opts) is interpreted.

Ah, understood.  Then the next question is: will the default rc object
be overridden or updated with these values?

Cheers,

f



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