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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Document how to distribute style files in python packages","articleBody":"\u003c!--To help us understand and resolve your issue, please fill out the form to the best of your ability.--\u003e\r\n\u003c!--You can feel free to delete the sections that do not apply.--\u003e\r\n\r\n### Bug report\r\n\r\nStyle files (actually, style *dicts*) can be distributed as python packages, as discussed e.g. in https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/14943#issuecomment-517321236.  This has the advantage of being relatively easy to do and that it works \"as is\" for essentially all versions of matplotlib (if your matplotlib is too old to have `matplotlib.style.use` (pre 1.5...) you can still use `rcParams.update(style_dict)`).\r\n\r\nIn today's call we agreed that this approach should be documented and that a template package (similar to https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib-cmap-template) could be created.\r\n\r\nIt was also pointed out during the call that this approach makes it easy to distribute colormaps together with the style, or add any additional custom logic; this may be worth documenting too.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/anntzer","@type":"Person","name":"anntzer"},"datePublished":"2020-07-20T20:33:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/17978/matplotlib/issues/17978"}