I recently upgraded from matplotlib v1.5.3 from v2.0.0, but with this change, it seems that matplotlib no longer uses my edited matplotlibrc file when plotting figures. When I open the matplotlibrc file in a text editor, I see that my changes are in fact implemented in the file, but when I type matplotlib.rcParams, these changes are not displayed. matplotlib.rcParams only displays the default parameters. Thinking that maybe it was looking at a different matplotlibrc file, I ran matplotlib.matplotlib_fname(), but this points to the same directory of my edited matplotlibrc file.

Does anyone know what's going on here?

FYI, I am running matplotlib 2.0.0 in Python 2.7.12 with IPython 5.1.0. To open matplotlib in IPython, I utilize first the command %matplotlib.