[Matplotlib-users] default cmap in ver. 2.0

[Ryan May]

My next step would be to prove that the config isn't affecting things by
moving it elsewhere and seeing what happens.

Ryan

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 2:47 PM, Slavin, Jonathan <jslavin at cfa.harvard.edu>
wrote:

> 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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>
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