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AI-generatedMatplotlib font cache behavior in read-only headless environments
Font Cache Initialization in Restricted Environments Matplotlib initializes a font cache during the first run to optimize font discovery. This cache is typically written to a platform-specific user directory. In headless CI/CD pipelines or containerized environments where the filesystem is mounted as read-only, the process may encounter write failures when a
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