Re: [Matplotlib-users] python question from matlab user

in your jmkfile.py you should have

from  pylab  import  *

Paul



On 9/8/12 12:45 AM, Jody Klymak wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry to ask a dumb python newbie question, but the problem arose while reading the matplotlib documentation, and an hour or so on the internet didnt' help, so I felt it was fair-ish game to post here.
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> In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/customize_rc.html it says:
> """
> If you like to work interactively, and need to create different sets
> of defaults for figures (eg one set of defaults for publication, one
> set for interactive exploration), you may want to define some
> functions in a custom module that set the defaults, eg
>
> def set_pub():
>      rc('font', weight='bold')    # bold fonts are easier to see
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> Then as you are working interactively, you just need to do
>
>>>> set_pub()
> """
>
> Which I thought was great, because I'd like to have some presets for different journals.  However, saving the def into a file (jmkfigure.py) and calling
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> from jmkfigure import *
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> set_pub()
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> yields the error: "NameError: global name 'rc' is not defined"
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> I tried importing matplotlib and rc into jmkfigure.py, but to no avail.
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> I appreciate this is a scoping issue with python, but I can't figure out how to set rc from within an external module.
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> Thanks for any help,
>
> Cheers,   Jody
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