grid option

John, I'm having a problem with gridlines. I set axes.grid

    > : True in my .matplotlibrc file

    > But when I run examples/embedding_in_gtk.py and
    > examples/simple_plot.py there are no gridlines.

Oops, this was just an oversight. In matplotlib.axes.Axes.cla, change

        self._gridOn = False
to
        self._gridOn = rcParams['axes.grid']

Should help; thanks for letting me know,
JDH