spylt#

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spylt is a simple utility to back up the data necessary to reproduce a matplotlib figure. Ever came back after weeks, months (years?) to a figure that you need to slightly adjust, only to find out that you have no idea where you buried that piece of code or that dataset that you need to generate this plot? That’s a typical situation in which spylt would have helped. It provides a decorator for your plotting functions that adds the functionality that upon saving the figure, a copy of all the following metadata can be saved:

  • The function or even the function’s module code, as a .py file.

  • The values of all of the function’s arguments, as pickle files.

  • The virtual environment definition, that is pip’s requirements.txt or conda’s environment.yml.

  • A matplotlibrc file, which can be useful in case you’ve modified rcParams at runtime.

  • Other things? Please make your suggestions in the issue tracker!

Please bear in mind that spylt should only be seen as a failsafe, it does not replace good practices such as version control, saving intermediary results and figure metadata.

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