Set common matplotlib rcParams

threadcount.procedures.set_rcParams

Easy script with some presets, which also allows resetting to whatever was set before this script started modifying things.

The presets include:

{
  "image.aspect": "equal",
  "image.origin": "lower",
  "image.interpolation": "nearest",
  "image.cmap": "Blues_r",
  "axes.facecolor": "whitesmoke",
}

The basics of the script takes this dictionary, and updates it with the dictionary passed into the set_params() function. Then updates the matplotlib.rcParams with that resulting dictionary. See below for usage examples:

# The first time this is imported, set_rcParams.set_params() is run, which sets
# the rcParams to the presets.
from threadcount.procedures import set_rcParams

# reset the rcParams to the presets:
set_rcParams.set_params()

# update the rcParams cmap with "Reds_r":
set_rcParams.set_params({"image.cmap" : "Reds_r"})

# reset to whatever was originally set:
set_rcParams.reset_params()