[FIXED] Restore rcdefaults by environment setting

Issue

I have a library of python code that should create identical plots regardless of who is running it. So I'd like to ignore any user settings from e.g. the matplotlibrc file. I know I can do

matplotlib.rcdefaults()

within the code. However there is no one module that I know every script (or future added script) will call. I am able to define environment variables that will propagate through the bash environments that run these scripts, so is there is a way to specify matplotlib defaults that way?

Solution

Looks like one option might be to set

export MATPLOTLIBRC=some_empty_file

Answered By - RuthC