On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Ben North <b...@redfrontdoor.org> wrote:
> >> I tried to use "edgecolor = 'none'" in a call to bar(), hoping to get no > >> border to the bars, but instead got no bars at all. > > > > Just to note, the documentation does specify a difference between None > and > > 'none'. None means to use the rcdefaults and 'none' means no color at > all. > > Is bar() just simply not properly handling the 'none' case? > > That's right, yes. Currently, bar() does not handle the string 'none' > properly; it results in an empty graph. E.g.: > > bar([1, 2, 3], [12, 13, 14], edgecolor = None) > > behaves correctly, giving a bar chart with black-edged blue bars. > > bar([1, 2, 3], [12, 13, 14], edgecolor = 'none') > > gives no graph at all. After the patch, the second call gives the right > result, a bar-chart with border-less blue bars. Same kind of thing with > the kwarg 'color' instead of 'edgecolor', which is also fixed in my > second recent email. > > Hope this clarifies things. Thanks, > > Ben. > > Looking through the code for bar(), I see the same thing occurs for the 'color' keyword argument. So I guess we should fix that as well. If no one has any objections, I can commit this fix. Ben Root
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