Merge pull request matplotlib#21980 from cavesdev/remove-logging

Removed loaded modules logging

Author: QuLogic

doc/api/next_api_changes/removals/21980-CC.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Removed loaded modules logging
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+The list of currently loaded modules is no longer logged at the DEBUG level at Matplotlib import time,
+because it can produce extensive output and make other valuable DEBUG statements difficult to find. 
+If you were relying on this please arrange for your own logging (the built-in `sys.modules` can be used to get the currently loaded modules).

lib/matplotlib/__init__.py

@@ -1442,7 +1442,6 @@ def inner(ax, *args, data=None, **kwargs):
 
 _log.debug('interactive is %s', is_interactive())
 _log.debug('platform is %s', sys.platform)
-_log.debug('loaded modules: %s', list(sys.modules))
 
 
 # workaround: we must defer colormaps import to after loading rcParams, because