Adding colormaps?

[Martin Schöön]

Den 2017-01-21 skrev Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.serdah at nothing.here.invalid>:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:41:34 +0000, Martin Schöön wrote:
>
>> What I would like to do is to add the perceptually uniform sequential
>> colormaps introduced in version 1.5.something. I would like to do this
>> without breaking my Debian system in which Matplotlib version 1.4.2 is
>> the newest version available in the repo.
>
> Haven't checked, but I assume you can get the source. Compile it but 
> don't install it and then use the result in virtualenv, maybe?
>
I am hoping for directions to a config file to download and place 
somewhere...

/Martin