Fix rc.category bug, minor subplots bugs

Author: lukelbd

proplot/rctools.py

@@ -851,15 +851,18 @@ def _get_item(self, key, mode=None):
         else:
             return None
 
-    def category(self, cat, *, context=False):
+    def category(self, cat, *, trimcat=True, context=False):
         """
         Return a dictionary of settings beginning with the substring
         ``cat + '.'``.
 
         Parameters
         ----------
         cat : str, optional
-            The `rc` settings category.
+            The `rc` setting category.
+        trimcat : bool, optional
+            Whether to trim ``cat`` from the key names in the output
+            dictionary. Default is ``True``.
         context : bool, optional
             If ``True``, then each category setting that is not found in the
             context mode dictionaries is omitted from the output dictionary.
@@ -868,16 +871,19 @@ def category(self, cat, *, context=False):
         if cat not in RC_CATEGORIES:
             raise ValueError(
                 f'Invalid rc category {cat!r}. Valid categories are '
-                ', '.join(map(repr, RC_CATEGORIES)) + '.')
+                ', '.join(map(repr, RC_CATEGORIES)) + '.'
+            )
         kw = {}
         mode = 0 if not context else None
         for rcdict in (rcParamsLong, rcParams):
             for key in rcdict:
-                if not re.search(f'^{cat}[.][^.]+$', key):
+                if not re.match(fr'\A{cat}\.[^.]+\Z', key):
                     continue
                 value = self._get_item(key, mode)
                 if value is None:
                     continue
+                if trimcat:
+                    key = re.sub(fr'\A{cat}\.', '', key)
                 kw[key] = value
         return kw
 

proplot/subplots.py

@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ def _get_panelargs(
     width = units(width)
     if space is None:
         key = ('wspace' if s in 'lr' else 'hspace')
-        pad = (rc['axpad'] if figure else rc['panelpad'])
+        pad = (rc['subplots.axpad'] if figure else rc['subplots.panelpad'])
         space = _get_space(key, share, pad=pad)
     return share, width, space, space_user
 
@@ -2192,10 +2192,11 @@ def subplots(
     right = _notNone(right, _get_space('right'))
     bottom = _notNone(bottom, _get_space('bottom'))
     top = _notNone(top, _get_space('top'))
-    wratios, hratios = [*wratios], [*hratios]  # copies
     wspace, hspace = np.array(wspace), np.array(hspace)  # also copies!
     wspace[wspace == None] = _get_space('wspace', sharex)  # noqa
     hspace[hspace == None] = _get_space('hspace', sharey)  # noqa
+    wratios, hratios = list(wratios), list(hratios)
+    wspace, hspace = list(wspace), list(hspace)
 
     # Parse arguments, fix dimensions in light of desired aspect ratio
     figsize, gridspec_kw, subplots_kw = _subplots_geometry(