Norbert,
>>Either I am not understanding you correctly, or we have fundamentally >>different views of the role of matplotlibrc values. The way I see it, >>function args and kwargs *always* override matplotlibrc values, which in >>turn *always* override built-in defaults. So in the example above, if >>the user writes "plot(x,y,'r.')", red dots should be plotted no matter >>what is in matplotlibrc. It should not depend on whether something is >>set to 'auto'. >> > > > I fully agree with you. > > Guess, the simple solution to the dilemma is to drop the idea of > rcfile-configurability of markerfacecolor and markeredgecolor. That way, > markers would always have the same color as the line, unless explicitely > set differently by the kwargs markeredgecolor/markerfacecolor. > > This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other case, a > rcfile-option will not help anyway. This sounds ideal to me--it makes everything simpler, both in the code and in explaining what the behavior is. Thanks! Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
