[Matplotlib-users] default cmap in ver. 2.0

[Slavin, Jonathan]

It's showing ~/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc  But as I said, the line
with image.cmap on it was commented out.  So how are the defaults set for
things that are not changed by the matplotlibrc?

Jon

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, then try this to find out what config file is being used:
>
> import matplotlib
> print(matplotlib.matplotlib_fname())
>
> Ben Root
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> It's definitely picking up the new matplotlib since many defaults for
>> plotting, e.g. the line color cycle, tick direction, are changed.  It's
>> really just the default colormap that's apparently unchanged.
>>
>> Jon
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> in situations like this, the most common reason is that you aren't
>>> actually loading the matplotlib you think you are running. I would
>>> double-check by doing:
>>>
>>> import matplotlib
>>> print(matplotlib.__version__)
>>>
>>> Another trick I use is to type: "pydoc matplotlib" and see what it
>>> picked up.
>>>
>>> Ben Root
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <
>>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I just installed matplotlib 2.0.  I was surprised that when I created
>>>> an image plot using imshow I had the same old jet colormap instead of
>>>> viridis.  I looked in my ~/.confg/matplotlib/matplotlibrc file and the
>>>> image.cmap line was commented out, so that didn't seem to be the problem.
>>>> Just to be sure, I moved that one aside and copied the new one under the
>>>> matplotlib distribution to its place (which also has that line commented
>>>> out).  I still get the same result.  Obviously I can fix this either by
>>>> uncommenting that line or by specifying the cmap in calls to imshow.  But
>>>> I'm curious, where are those defaults stored?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jon
>>>>
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>> Jonathan D. Slavin                 Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
>> jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu       60 Garden Street, MS 83
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>> cell: (781) 363-0035             USA
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