On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 18:45, John Hunter <jd...@gm...> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Sandro Tosi <mo...@de...> wrote: >> >> > +def rc_file_defaults(): >> > + """ >> > + Restore the default rc params from the original matplotlib rc that >> > + was loaded >> > + """ >> > + rcParams.update(rcParamsOrig) >> > + >> > _use_error_msg = """ This call to matplotlib.use() has no effect >> > because the the backend has already been chosen; >> > matplotlib.use() must be called *before* pylab, matplotlib.pyplot, >> >> >> I take the patch is not complete, right? because naively applying it >> in a just-untarred source code + configuring doc/matplotlibrc don't >> work (ie keeps trying accessing the net) >> > > > Well, that is the default behavior. You still have to untar, and set the > examples.directory rc parameter as Ben discussed to do a no download doc > build. So you'll want to patch doc/matplotlibrc to set this param. ehm that's what I meant with "configuring doc/matplotlibrc" - I did that :) $ tail -n2 doc/matplotlibrc examples.download : False # False to bypass downloading mechanism examples.directory : /home/morph/deb/build-area/matplotlib-1.0.1~rc1/sampledata/ and sampledata is .. from doc -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi