"""

Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams

=====================================================

Tips for customizing the properties and default styles of Matplotlib.

Using style sheets

------------------

The ``style`` package adds support for easy-to-switch plotting "styles" with

the same parameters as a

:ref:`matplotlib rc <customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files>` file (which is read

at startup to configure matplotlib).

There are a number of pre-defined styles `provided by Matplotlib`_. For

example, there's a pre-defined style called "ggplot", which emulates the

aesthetics of ggplot_ (a popular plotting package for R_). To use this style,

just add:

"""

import numpy as np

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

import matplotlib as mpl

plt.style.use('ggplot')

data = np.random.randn(50)

###############################################################################

# To list all available styles, use:

print(plt.style.available)

###############################################################################

# Defining your own style

# -----------------------

#

# You can create custom styles and use them by calling ``style.use`` with the

# path or URL to the style sheet. Additionally, if you add your

# ``<style-name>.mplstyle`` file to ``mpl_configdir/stylelib``, you can reuse

# your custom style sheet with a call to ``style.use(<style-name>)``. By default

# ``mpl_configdir`` should be ``~/.config/matplotlib``, but you can check where

# yours is with ``matplotlib.get_configdir()``; you may need to create this

# directory. You also can change the directory where matplotlib looks for

# the stylelib/ folder by setting the MPLCONFIGDIR environment variable,

# see :ref:`locating-matplotlib-config-dir`.

#

# Note that a custom style sheet in ``mpl_configdir/stylelib`` will

# override a style sheet defined by matplotlib if the styles have the same name.

#

# For example, you might want to create

# ``mpl_configdir/stylelib/presentation.mplstyle`` with the following::

#

# axes.titlesize : 24

# axes.labelsize : 20

# lines.linewidth : 3

# lines.markersize : 10

# xtick.labelsize : 16

# ytick.labelsize : 16

#

# Then, when you want to adapt a plot designed for a paper to one that looks

# good in a presentation, you can just add::

#

# >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# >>> plt.style.use('presentation')

#

#

# Composing styles

# ----------------

#

# Style sheets are designed to be composed together. So you can have a style

# sheet that customizes colors and a separate style sheet that alters element

# sizes for presentations. These styles can easily be combined by passing

# a list of styles::

#

# >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# >>> plt.style.use(['dark_background', 'presentation'])

#

# Note that styles further to the right will overwrite values that are already

# defined by styles on the left.

#

#

# Temporary styling

# -----------------

#

# If you only want to use a style for a specific block of code but don't want

# to change the global styling, the style package provides a context manager

# for limiting your changes to a specific scope. To isolate your styling

# changes, you can write something like the following:

with plt.style.context(('dark_background')):

plt.plot(np.sin(np.linspace(0, 2 * np.pi)), 'r-o')

plt.show()

###############################################################################

# .. _matplotlib-rcparams:

#

# matplotlib rcParams

# ===================

#

# .. _customizing-with-dynamic-rc-settings:

#

# Dynamic rc settings

# -------------------

#

# You can also dynamically change the default rc settings in a python script or

# interactively from the python shell. All of the rc settings are stored in a

# dictionary-like variable called :data:`matplotlib.rcParams`, which is global to

# the matplotlib package. rcParams can be modified directly, for example:

mpl.rcParams['lines.linewidth'] = 2

mpl.rcParams['lines.color'] = 'r'

plt.plot(data)

###############################################################################

# Matplotlib also provides a couple of convenience functions for modifying rc

# settings. The :func:`matplotlib.rc` command can be used to modify multiple

# settings in a single group at once, using keyword arguments:

mpl.rc('lines', linewidth=4, color='g')

plt.plot(data)

###############################################################################

# The :func:`matplotlib.rcdefaults` command will restore the standard matplotlib

# default settings.

#

# There is some degree of validation when setting the values of rcParams, see

# :mod:`matplotlib.rcsetup` for details.

#

# .. _customizing-with-matplotlibrc-files:

#

# The :file:`matplotlibrc` file

# -----------------------------

#

# matplotlib uses :file:`matplotlibrc` configuration files to customize all kinds

# of properties, which we call `rc settings` or `rc parameters`. You can control

# the defaults of almost every property in matplotlib: figure size and dpi, line

# width, color and style, axes, axis and grid properties, text and font

# properties and so on. matplotlib looks for :file:`matplotlibrc` in four

# locations, in the following order:

#

# 1. :file:`matplotlibrc` in the current working directory, usually used for

# specific customizations that you do not want to apply elsewhere.

#

# 2. :file:`$MATPLOTLIBRC` if it is a file, else :file:`$MATPLOTLIBRC/matplotlibrc`.

#

# 3. It next looks in a user-specific place, depending on your platform:

#

# - On Linux and FreeBSD, it looks in :file:`.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc`

# (or `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/matplotlib/matplotlibrc`) if you've customized

# your environment.

#

# - On other platforms, it looks in :file:`.matplotlib/matplotlibrc`.

#

# See :ref:`locating-matplotlib-config-dir`.

#

# 4. :file:`{INSTALL}/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc`, where

# :file:`{INSTALL}` is something like

# :file:`/usr/lib/python3.5/site-packages` on Linux, and maybe

# :file:`C:\\Python35\\Lib\\site-packages` on Windows. Every time you

# install matplotlib, this file will be overwritten, so if you want

# your customizations to be saved, please move this file to your

# user-specific matplotlib directory.

#

# Once a :file:`matplotlibrc` file has been found, it will *not* search any of

# the other paths.

#

# To display where the currently active :file:`matplotlibrc` file was

# loaded from, one can do the following::

#

# >>> import matplotlib

# >>> matplotlib.matplotlib_fname()

# '/home/foo/.config/matplotlib/matplotlibrc'

#

# See below for a sample :ref:`matplotlibrc file<matplotlibrc-sample>`.

# Although all parameters are optional, you should almost always set the

# `backend` or else matplotlib will choose `Agg`, a *non-interactive* backend.

# This can lead to unexpected behavior, since if you do not have a

# :file:`matplotlibrc` file, it would normally fall back to

# :file:`{INSTALL}/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc`, which is often set to an

# interactive backend by the package maintainer.

#

# .. _matplotlibrc-sample:

#

# A sample matplotlibrc file

# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

#

# .. literalinclude:: ../../../matplotlibrc.template

#

#

# .. _ggplot: http://ggplot2.org/

# .. _R: https://www.r-project.org/

# .. _provided by Matplotlib: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/tree/master/lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/stylelib