Kyle Sunden

Gentle voice of support for E122 and E302 (the latter being included in #4694 which has been in draft for a while.) (ping @hoel-bagard, as both author of that PR...

This looks like an installation issue? It is certainly true that `docstring` was removed after a deprecation cycle of 2 releases and changed to be private (`_docstring`) However, the line...

I will also point out that `matplotlib` is coming from `site-packages`, but `mpl_toolkits` is coming from `dist-packages`

`mpl_toolkits` is distributed with `matplotlib`, in the `matplotlib` pypi (and conda, etc) package. It is a separate python package, where some more experimental features (most notably 3D plotting support), though...

Ah, yeah, the namespace package definition did also change, though I think that the changes to packaging are likely orthogonal here... setuptools has been stripping out the changes silently for...

When I made the change, I found that setuptools had already been stripping out `__init__.py` from `mpl_toolkits` for wheels already, so I was pretty sure there would be no _change_....

I will also point out the frustrating state of being with this sentence in the `pkg_resources` style namespace packages (which we used), when combined with the fact that `pkg_resources` is...

mpl_toolkits is a namespace package, meaning that other things _can_ install into the same namespace. In practice, I think this is done almost exclusively by `basemap`. I think I found...

The macOS failure is due to inconsistent tk headers provided by the Azure image. It has been reported to Azure, but we are waiting in the fix

Closed as superseded by #28451, Thank you for your work here.