Merge pull request #1964 from MDAnalysis/user-warning-matplotlib

remove matplotlib warning
MDAnalysis · Jun 30, 2018 · 060e2c2 · 060e2c2
2 parents 9bd5b09 + 8c55498
commit 060e2c2
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
@@ -121,11 +121,13 @@
 # issue #412 https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis/issues/412 and PR #1822.
 os.environ['DUECREDIT_ENABLE'] = 'yes'
 
-# Any tests that plot with matplotlib need to run with the simple agg backend because
-# on Travis there is no DISPLAY set
+# Any tests that plot with matplotlib need to run with the simple agg backend
+# because on Travis there is no DISPLAY set. This doesn't warn if we import
+# files from the tests after loading matplotlib. This will remove unnecessary
+# user warnings. 
 try:
     import matplotlib
-    matplotlib.use('agg')
+    matplotlib.use('agg', warn=False)
 except ImportError:
     pass