vincentchu · June 14, 2013 04:12 · Jun 14, 2013
diff --git a/matplotlib.py b/matplotlib.py
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+
+rcOpts = {'figure.figsize': (6.0,4.0),
+        # play nicely with white background in the Qt and notebook frontend
+        'figure.facecolor': 'white',
+        'figure.edgecolor': 'white',
+        # 12pt labels get cutoff on 6x4 logplots, so use 10pt.
+        'font.size': 10,
+        # 72 dpi matches SVG/qtconsole
+        # this only affects PNG export, as SVG has no dpi setting
+        'savefig.dpi': 72,
+        # 10pt still needs a little more room on the xlabel:
+        'figure.subplot.bottom' : .125
+        }
+
+from io import BytesIO
+import base64
+import matplotlib
+# matplotlib.interactive(True)
+matplotlib.interactive(False)
+
+from matplotlib import pyplot
+pyplot.rcParams.update(rcOpts)
+
+from pylab import *
+from matplotlib._pylab_helpers import Gcf
+
+plot([1,2,3])
+
+fig = Gcf.get_all_fig_managers()[0].canvas.figure
+
+fc = fig.get_facecolor()
+ec = fig.get_edgecolor()
+
+bytes_io = BytesIO()
+fig.canvas.print_figure(bytes_io, format='png', bbox_inches='tight', facecolor=fc, edgecolor=ec)
+data = bytes_io.getvalue()
+
+print("DATA = %s" %(base64.b64encode(data)))
+
+
+
+