Hi Sandro,
On 01/08/2016 03:34 PM, Sandro Tosi wrote:
has this change with the latest releases of matplotlib?
No, apparently not:
$ python3 test.py
$ dir ~/.matplotlib
/bin/ls: cannot access /home/nikratio/.matplotlib: No such file or directory
$ printenv | grep MPL
$ apt show python3-matplotlib | grep Version
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in
scripts.
Version: 1.5.1~rc1-1
> from the last
reply, it seems that enabling the cache make mpl quick for you, so
that would be the solution for this?
As far as I can tell, matplotlib is slow because it does not use the
cache without the user explicitly setting MPLCONFIGDIR. According to the
documentation, it should default to ~/.matplotlib if MPLCONFIGDIR is not
set.
So yes, explicitly setting MPLCONFIGDIR to some value fixes the slow
startup. However, it has the detrimental side-effect that it stops
matplotlib from reading its configuration from
~/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc, so I would call it a workaround, not
a solution.
Best,
-Nikolaus
