一个 matplotlib 样式文件可以从另一个文件继承值吗？

Question

Suppose I have a matplotlib style file base.mplstyle with several specifications

legend.fancybox: True
legend.numpoints: 1
legend.frameon: True
legend.framealpha: 0.8
legend.shadow: True
text.color: white
text.usetex: True
figure.figsize : 9, 9

Suppose I want to create another style file small_figure.mplstyle , which has all identical settings save for just one:

legend.fancybox: True
legend.numpoints: 1
legend.frameon: True
legend.framealpha: 0.8
legend.shadow: True
text.color: white
text.usetex: True
figure.figsize : 2, 2 # <--- the only difference

Instead of copy-pasting a bunch of parameter values, is there any easy way to tell small_figure.mplstyle to inherit defaults from base.mplstyle ? I'm thinking something concise, like

# This is not a valid .mplstyle file    
plt.style.use("base")
figure.figsize : 2, 2

Answer 1

Style sheets are designed to be combined, so you can set up the styles you want to combine in list form. Note, however, that they will be overridden by the values of the more right-handed styles.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.style.use(['base', 'small_figure'])