Re: [Matplotlib-users] config dir owned by root

2010-11-08 Thread Philip Semanchuk
On Nov 8, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Ryan May wrote: On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Philip Semanchuk phi...@semanchuk.com wrote: Hi Ryan, Thanks. I don't know why sudo behaves the way it does with regard to $HOME, but the behavior of sudo is not under my control (nor matplotlib's). Also, I expect

[Matplotlib-users] config dir owned by root

2010-11-07 Thread Philip Semanchuk
Hi all, I've run into an aspect of matplotlib's setup that seems awkward. I'm seeing this on Ubuntu, but I imagine it would happen on any *nix platform. If python is running under sudo the first time matplotlib is imported, then matplotlib creates its config dir (~/.matplotlib) with root as the