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backend switching.
See changes documented in the API changes file. Some followup cleanup (of the now unused old machinery) will come as a separate PR (left some "FIXME: Remove." comments). Changes to the build process (namely, getting rid of trying to detect the default backend in setupext.py) will come as a separate PR. I inlined pylab_setup into switch_backend (and deprecated the old version of pylab_setup) because otherwise the typical call stack would be `use()` -> `set rcParams['backend'] = ...` -> `switch_backend()` -> `pylab_setup()`, which is a bit of a mess; at least we can get rid of one of the layers.
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‎doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-02-15-AL-deprecations.rst

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- ``backend_ps.get_bbox``,
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- ``backend_qt5.error_msg_qt``, ``backend_qt5.exception_handler``,
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- ``backend_wx.FigureCanvasWx.macros``,
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- ``backends.pylab_setup``,
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- ``cbook.GetRealpathAndStat``, ``cbook.Locked``,
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- ``cbook.is_numlike`` (use ``isinstance(..., numbers.Number)`` instead),
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``cbook.listFiles``, ``cbook.unicode_safe``,

‎doc/api/next_api_changes/2018-06-27-AL.rst

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Changes to backend loading
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``````````````````````````
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Assignment to ``rcParams["backend"]`` now sets the backend. Backends can now
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be switched until a figure is actually created.
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Failure to load backend modules (``macosx`` on non-framework builds and
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``gtk3`` when running headless) now raises `ImportError` (instead of
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`RuntimeError` and `TypeError`, respectively.

‎lib/matplotlib/__init__.py

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dict.update(rcParams, self._orig)
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# FIXME: Remove.
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_use_error_msg = """
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This call to matplotlib.use() has no effect because the backend has already
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been chosen; matplotlib.use() must be called *before* pylab, matplotlib.pyplot,
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def use(arg, warn=True, force=False):
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"""
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Set the matplotlib backend to one of the known backends.
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Set the Matplotlib backend.
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The argument is case-insensitive. *warn* specifies whether a
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warning should be issued if a backend has already been set up.
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*force* is an **experimental** flag that tells matplotlib to
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attempt to initialize a new backend by reloading the backend
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module.
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The argument is case-insensitive. Switching to an interactive backend is
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only safe if no event loop for another interactive backend has started.
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Switching to and from non-interactive backends is safe.
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.. note::
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This function must be called *before* importing pyplot for
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the first time; or, if you are not using pyplot, it must be called
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before importing matplotlib.backends. If warn is True, a warning
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is issued if you try and call this after pylab or pyplot have been
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loaded. In certain black magic use cases, e.g.
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:func:`pyplot.switch_backend`, we are doing the reloading necessary to
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make the backend switch work (in some cases, e.g., pure image
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backends) so one can set warn=False to suppress the warnings.
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To find out which backend is currently set, see
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:func:`matplotlib.get_backend`.
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To find out which backend is currently set, see `matplotlib.get_backend`.
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Parameters
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----------
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arg : str
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The name of the backend to use.
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"""
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# Lets determine the proper backend name first
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if arg.startswith('module://'):
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name = arg
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else:
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# Lowercase only non-module backend names (modules are case-sensitive)
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arg = arg.lower()
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name = validate_backend(arg)
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# Check if we've already set up a backend
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if 'matplotlib.backends' in sys.modules:
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# Warn only if called with a different name
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if (rcParams['backend'] != name) and warn:
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import matplotlib.backends
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warnings.warn(
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_use_error_msg.format(
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backend=rcParams['backend'],
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tb=matplotlib.backends._backend_loading_tb),
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stacklevel=2)
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# Unless we've been told to force it, just return
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if not force:
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return
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need_reload = True
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else:
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need_reload = False
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# Store the backend name
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rcParams['backend'] = name
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# If needed we reload here because a lot of setup code is triggered on
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# module import. See backends/__init__.py for more detail.
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if need_reload:
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importlib.reload(sys.modules['matplotlib.backends'])
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# We want to keep 'use(...); rcdefaults()' working, which means that
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# use(...) needs to force the default backend too.
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rcParams["backend"] = \
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rcParamsDefault["backend"] = rcParamsOrig["backend"] = arg
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‎lib/matplotlib/backend_bases.py

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"backend_version",
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"FigureCanvas",
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‎lib/matplotlib/backends/__init__.py

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import matplotlib
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# FIXME: Remove.
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import importlib
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