Customizing matplotlib's parameters per project
This recipe explains where the various configuration files are that matplotlib uses and why we want to use one or the other. Also, we explain what is in these configuration files.
Getting ready
If you don't want to configure matplotlib as the first step in your code every time you use it (as we did in the previous recipe), this recipe will explain how to have different default configurations of matplotlib for different projects. This way your code will not be cluttered with configuration data and, moreover, you can easily share configuration templates with your co-workers or even among other projects.
How to do it...
If you have a working project that always uses the same settings for certain parameters ...
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