On 2010年12月09日 16:44:37 -0500, Ben Gamari <bg...@gm...> wrote: > rcdefaults()'s implementation appears to implement the latter, updating > rcParams from rcParamsDefault in rcsetup.py, which appears to describe > the factory default values. Perhaps we should > rcParamsDefault.update(rcParams) after loading matplotlibrc? > As expected, doing the update of rcParamsDefault proposed above (patch below) allows the examples.download setting to persist throughout the documentation build. It seems like either the documentation build process or rcParamsDefault has been badly broken for a very long time. Is rcParamsDefault really supposed to be the factory defaults or is this just a bug? If the former, we will need to introduce a variant of matplotlib.rcdefaults() to reset the configuration to that specified in matplotlibrc. - Ben diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py --- a/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py +++ b/lib/matplotlib/__init__.py @@ -764,13 +772,13 @@ Please do not ask for support with these customizations active. # this is the instance used by the matplotlib classes rcParams = rc_params() - -rcParamsDefault = RcParams([ (key, default) for key, (default, converter) in \ - defaultParams.iteritems() ]) - rcParams['ps.usedistiller'] = checkdep_ps_distiller(rcParams['ps.usedistiller']) rcParams['text.usetex'] = checkdep_usetex(rcParams['text.usetex']) +rcParamsDefault = RcParams([ (key, default) for key, (default, converter) in \ + defaultParams.iteritems() ]) +rcParamsDefault.update(rcParams) + def rc(group, **kwargs): """ Set the current rc params. Group is the grouping for the rc, eg.