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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"[MNT]: de-duplicate hatch validation","articleBody":"### Summary\n\nIn #17926 code to validate hatches got added to the hatch module:\r\nhttps://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/5100378d3f59d6b715ec62a746f12663541efd96/lib/matplotlib/hatch.py#L182-L196\r\n\r\nand there's near identical code in rc validation that went in in #4686:\r\nhttps://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/509315008ce383f7fb5b2dbbdc2a5a966dd83aad/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py#L580-L592\r\n\r\nThey diverge slightly in that the hatch version has a deprecation warning but I think it should also apply to the rc version?\n\n### Proposed fix\n\nMake the validation function in hatch.py the canonical validator and either deprecate the rcsetup validation function or turn it into a thin shim over the one in hatch.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/story645","@type":"Person","name":"story645"},"datePublished":"2022-12-21T05:51:43.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":5},"url":"https://github.com/24797/matplotlib/issues/24797"}