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Suggest unexisting filename when saving displayed figure #3608
Description
Wanted feature Automatically update the suggested filename to save a figure to if a file with the default filename already exists.
Situation now The default interface always suggests figure_1.png filename even when it exists. This means that, each time I want to save a figure, I have to check how many figures I have and update the filename to figure_<number_of_figures+1>.png.
It would be great if It was possible to specify the filename pattern in matplotlibrc file.
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efiring commentedon Mar 14, 2015
If you turn this into a PR, please don't try to put a space in the file name. Use another underscore, or a dash, or a dot.
efiring commentedon Mar 15, 2015
"figure_1-2.png" would work fine. One doesn't want to interfere with the extension, since so many programs use it to decide what to do with a file.
efiring commentedon Mar 15, 2015
Also, the dash is probably better than a dot; some programs stupidly treat everything after the first dot as the extension. I am not aware of anything that would cause problems with a dash.
umairidris commentedon Mar 15, 2015
Sorry @stallone1993! I already had this feature completed. Please see #4221. I would appreciate your feedback.