Styling in Python

Style sheets set the defaults; rcParams override them per figure.

import matplotlib

matplotlib.use("Agg")
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

print([name for name in plt.style.available if "white" in name][:3])

with plt.rc_context({"axes.grid": True, "font.size": 9,
                     "axes.spines.top": False, "axes.spines.right": False}):
    figure, axes = plt.subplots()
    axes.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 2])
    axes.set_title("scoped styling")
    figure.savefig("styled.png")

print(matplotlib.rcParams["axes.grid"])

How it works

plt.style.use applies a named sheet.
rc_context scopes changes to a block.
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