When plotting multiple data with one Axes.hist call, the method's interface allows you to specify a list of labels to the 'label' kwarg to distinguish between the datasets. To get different colors, however, you cannot give a list of colors to 'color'; instead, you have to leave out the 'color' kwarg and change the color cycle.
Is there any reason why the color kwarg can't work like label? I spent an hour or two trying to debug a script before I realized that 'color' wasn't being interpreted as I expected. I realize that there is some ambiguity since a color argument can be an rgb or rgba sequence. My proposal would be that 'color' would be interpreted as a list of distinct colors only when multiple datasets are given as input and len(color) equals the number of datasets. I find it hard to imagine a case where you would want to set all datasets to be the same color, so I don't think the ambiguity would be a major issue. I would be happy to write and submit an implementation if others think this is a reasonable idea. Cheers, Jeff || Jeff Klukas, Research Assistant, Physics || University of Wisconsin -- Madison || jeff.klu...@gmail | jeffyklu...@aim | jeffklu...@skype || http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jklukas/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
