(This comes from this SO question by suggestion of @tacaswell)

I want to distribute a custom matplotlib style sheet, but right now the only way I can think of is uploading it to Gist or some other website and tell my users to manually download it to some configuration directory.

It would be nice to have a way to distribute a style sheet as if it were a Python package, or as part of a module. Something easy like pip install mpl_fancy. Something similar is already done with IPython extensions.