errors arose for some (but not all) of these parameters inside apostrophes. Removing the apostrophes seemed to work. I'm curious about why this occured for some but not all variables. Anyway, my test complained about these but not the others.

katyhuff · katyhuff · commit a41204d78671 · 2013-06-29T17:25:50.000-05:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcsetup.py b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcsetup.py
@@ -18,8 +18,14 @@ def test_defaults():
 def test_template():
     # the current matplotlibrc.template should validate successfully
     mpl.rc_file(templaterc)
-    for k, v in templateParams.iteritems():
-        assert mpl.rcParams[k] == v[0]
+    with mpl.rc_context(fname=templaterc):
+        for k, v in mpl.rcsetup.defaultParams.iteritems():
+            if mpl.rcParams[k] != v[0]:
+                print k
+                print v[0]
+                print mpl.rcParams[k]
+                print "---------------"
+            assert mpl.rcParams[k] == v[0]
 
 
 def test_unicode():
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcsetup.rc b/lib/matplotlib/tests/test_rcsetup.rc
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ text.dvipnghack : None      # some versions of dvipng don't handle alpha
                              # correction off.  None will try and
                              # guess based on your dvipng version
 
-text.hinting : 'auto' # May be one of the following:
+text.hinting : auto # May be one of the following:
                        #   'none': Perform no hinting
                        #   'auto': Use freetype's autohinter
                        #   'native': Use the hinting information in the
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ pdf.fonttype       : 3         # Output Type 3 (Type3) or Type 42 (TrueType)
 # svg backend params
 svg.image_inline : True       # write raster image data directly into the svg file
 svg.image_noscale : False     # suppress scaling of raster data embedded in SVG
-svg.fonttype : 'path'         # How to handle SVG fonts:
+svg.fonttype : path         # How to handle SVG fonts:
 #    'none': Assume fonts are installed on the machine where the SVG will be viewed.
 #    'path': Embed characters as paths -- supported by most SVG renderers
 #    'svgfont': Embed characters as SVG fonts -- supported only by Chrome,
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ animation.writer : ffmpeg         # MovieWriter 'backend' to use
 animation.codec : mp4             # Codec to use for writing movie
 animation.bitrate: -1             # Controls size/quality tradeoff for movie.
                                    # -1 implies let utility auto-determine
-animation.frame_format: 'png'     # Controls frame format used by temp files
+animation.frame_format: png     # Controls frame format used by temp files
 animation.ffmpeg_path: 'ffmpeg'   # Path to ffmpeg binary. Without full path
                                    # $PATH is searched
 animation.ffmpeg_args: ''         # Additional arguments to pass to ffmpeg
diff --git a/matplotlibrc.template b/matplotlibrc.template
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ backend      : %(backend)s
                              # correction off.  None will try and
                              # guess based on your dvipng version
 
-#text.hinting : 'auto' # May be one of the following:
+#text.hinting : auto # May be one of the following:
                        #   'none': Perform no hinting
                        #   'auto': Use freetype's autohinter
                        #   'native': Use the hinting information in the
@@ -399,7 +399,7 @@ backend      : %(backend)s
 # svg backend params
 #svg.image_inline : True       # write raster image data directly into the svg file
 #svg.image_noscale : False     # suppress scaling of raster data embedded in SVG
-#svg.fonttype : 'path'         # How to handle SVG fonts:
+#svg.fonttype : path         # How to handle SVG fonts:
 #    'none': Assume fonts are installed on the machine where the SVG will be viewed.
 #    'path': Embed characters as paths -- supported by most SVG renderers
 #    'svgfont': Embed characters as SVG fonts -- supported only by Chrome,
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ backend      : %(backend)s
 #animation.codec : mp4             # Codec to use for writing movie
 #animation.bitrate: -1             # Controls size/quality tradeoff for movie.
                                    # -1 implies let utility auto-determine
-#animation.frame_format: 'png'     # Controls frame format used by temp files
+#animation.frame_format: png     # Controls frame format used by temp files
 #animation.ffmpeg_path: 'ffmpeg'   # Path to ffmpeg binary. Without full path
                                    # $PATH is searched
 #animation.ffmpeg_args: ''         # Additional arguments to pass to ffmpeg
