From 88ce0f4c44d23a575a99cfe5e4fb7db6ff0cc5d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stella <30465823+stellaprins@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2024 11:49:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] store cache and sett Agg for matplotlib to prevent matplotlib
 windows opening

---
 BioModels/parse_biomodels.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/BioModels/parse_biomodels.py b/BioModels/parse_biomodels.py
index d5b0a6d..b14bf04 100755
--- a/BioModels/parse_biomodels.py
+++ b/BioModels/parse_biomodels.py
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 sys.path.append("..")
 import utils
 
+matplotlib.use('Agg') #prevent matplotlib from trying to open a window
+
 API_URL: str = "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels"
 
 out_format="json"
@@ -181,7 +183,7 @@ def main():
 
     #caching is used to prevent the need to download the same responses from the remote server multiple times during testing
     #mode="off" to disable caching, "store" to wipe and store fresh results, "reuse" to use the stored cache
-    cache = utils.RequestCache(mode="auto",direc="cache")
+    cache = utils.RequestCache(mode="store",direc="cache")
 
     #accumulate results in columns defined by keys which correspond to the local variable names to be used below
     #to allow automated loading into the columns