You can't use the hash symbol when doing colors as a hex in an rcfile. The rcfile parser is so simple that it treats it as a comment. Don't drop the quotes.
Ben Root On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Thomas Caswell <tcasw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not at a computer to test, but try dropping the quotes. > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 20:56 Julian Irwin <julian.ir...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to set my default color cycle in my matplotlibrc using >> axes.prop_cycle. The documentation (as far as I could find...) only gives >> examples like >> >> axes.prop_cycle : cycler('color', 'bgrcmyk') >> >> >> And then the comment below says, cryptically: >> >> # as list of string colorspecs: >> # single letter, long name, or >> # web-style hex >> >> But I have tried all sorts of variatns on: >> >> axes.prop_cycle : cycler('color', ['#e41a1c', '#377eb8', '#4daf4a', >> '#ff7f00', '#a65628', '#f781bf', '#999999', '#984ea3', '#ffff33']) >> >> But I always get an error upon importing matplotlib. Is there any doc on >> how to do this properly? Is this even supported? >> >> Thanks, >> Julian >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > >
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