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Customize Rc#
I'm not trying to make a good-looking figure here, but just to showsome examples of customizingrcParams on the fly.
If you like to work interactively, and need to create different setsof defaults for figures (e.g., one set of defaults for publication, oneset for interactive exploration), you may want to define somefunctions in a custom module that set the defaults, e.g.,:
defset_pub():rcParams.update({"font.weight":"bold",# bold fonts"tick.labelsize":15,# large tick labels"lines.linewidth":1,# thick lines"lines.color":"k",# black lines"grid.color":"0.5",# gray gridlines"grid.linestyle":"-",# solid gridlines"grid.linewidth":0.5,# thin gridlines"savefig.dpi":300,# higher resolution output.})
Then as you are working interactively, you just need to do:
>>>set_pub()>>>plot([1,2,3])>>>savefig('myfig')>>>rcdefaults()# restore the defaults
importmatplotlib.pyplotaspltplt.subplot(311)plt.plot([1,2,3])# the axes attributes need to be set before the call to subplotplt.rcParams.update({"font.weight":"bold","xtick.major.size":5,"xtick.major.pad":7,"xtick.labelsize":15,"grid.color":"0.5","grid.linestyle":"-","grid.linewidth":5,"lines.linewidth":2,"lines.color":"g",})plt.subplot(312)plt.plot([1,2,3])plt.grid(True)plt.rcdefaults()plt.subplot(313)plt.plot([1,2,3])plt.grid(True)plt.show()