Jeff Klukas wrote: > Alright, I have attached a top-level diff that contains the changes to > axes.py that allow sending multiple colors to the 'color' argument in > Axes.hist. > > Below is a short examples that passes lists to 'colors' and 'labels'.
Jeff, Thanks. I find that both hist and the patch need some additional reworking, which I will try to get done this weekend. Eric > > Cheers, > Jeff > > || Jeff Klukas, Research Assistant, Physics > || University of Wisconsin -- Madison > || jeff.klu...@gmail | jeffyklu...@aim | jeffklu...@skype > || http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~jklukas/ > > ---------------------------------- > import pylab as P > > mu, sigma = 200, 25 > x0 = mu + sigma*P.randn(10000) > x1 = mu + sigma*P.randn(7000) > x2 = mu + sigma*P.randn(3000) > > P.figure() > > colors = ['crimson', 'burlywood', 'chartreuse'] > labels = ['Crimson', 'Burlywood', 'Chartreuse'] > n, bins, patches = P.hist([x0,x1,x2], 10, histtype='bar', > color=colors, label=labels) > > P.legend() > P.show() > --------------------------------- > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> Jeff Klukas wrote: >>> 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. >> Sounds good to me. I agree that it makes no sense to have to set the color >> cycle for hist (although using the color cycle as a default is reasonable), >> and I think it is just an artifact of the way hist has evolved. >> >> Eric >> >>> 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
