On 1/31/07, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Fonnesbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

   Chris> The thing is, I deleted my entire ~/.matplotlib directory,
   Chris> hoping to start clean. Where does matplotlib get its info
   Chris> when a .matplotlibrc is not present in my home directory?

It first looks in the current working dir and then in ~/.matplotlib

Try running a sample script with --verbose-helpful and it will tell
you which file is being read...



I copied the matplotlibrc file from the source in svn; here is what I get
using --verbose-helpful:

Osoyoos:~ chris$ python plot.py --verbose-helpful
plot.py:14: SyntaxWarning: import * only allowed at module level
 def main():
matplotlib data path
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data
$HOME=/Users/chris
CONFIGDIR=/Users/chris/.matplotlib
loaded rc file /Users/chris/.matplotlib/matplotlibrc
matplotlib version 0.87.7
verbose.level helpful
interactive is False
platform is darwin
numerix numpy 1.0.2.dev3522
font search path
['/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data']
loaded ttfcache file /Users/chris/.matplotlib/ttffont.cache
backend TkAgg version 8.4
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "plot.py", line 20, in ?
   main()
 File "plot.py", line 16, in main
   plot(range(10), range(10))
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py",
line 2038, in plot
   b = ishold()
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py",
line 937, in ishold
   return gca().ishold()
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/pylab.py",
line 883, in gca
   ax =  gcf().gca(**kwargs)
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
line 679, in gca
   return self.add_subplot(111, **kwargs)
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/figure.py",
line 506, in add_subplot
   a = Subplot(self, *args, **kwargs)
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
line 4911, in __init__
   Axes.__init__(self, fig, [self.figLeft, self.figBottom,
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
line 439, in __init__
   self._init_axis()
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axes.py",
line 470, in _init_axis
   self.xaxis = XAxis(self)
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py",
line 514, in __init__
   self.cla()
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/axis.py",
line 535, in cla
   self.set_major_formatter(ScalarFormatter())
 File
"/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python2.4/site-packages/matplotlib/ticker.py",
line 271, in __init__
   self._powerlimits = rcParams['axes.formatter.limits']
KeyError: 'axes.formatter.limits'



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