That's exactly what I was looking for! But how do I get the new feature into my matplotlib version?
Michael John Hunter schrieb: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM, John Hunter <jdh2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> using in favour of matplotlib). Plotting the data twice- the first time >>> without >>> symbol showing every data point and the second time onlywith the symbol >>> and some skip in the data - doesn't help as I now get two entities in >>> the legend. >>> >> There is a way to do this, but it is not terribly elegant. The tricky >> part is to get the legend right:: >> > > I just added a new line property called "markevery" to support > subsampling markers. Included below is the docstring and nosetest > which should clearly indicate usage: > > def set_markevery(self, every): > """ > Set the markevery property to subsample the plot when using > markers. Eg if ``markevery=5``, every 5-th marker will be > plotted. *every* can be > > None > Every point will be plotted > > an integer N > Every N-th marker will be plotted starting with marker 0 > > A length-2 tuple of integers > every=(start, N) will start at point start and plot every > N-th marker > > > ACCEPTS: None | integer | (startind, stride) > > """ > > > def test_markevery(): > x, y = np.random.rand(2, 100) > > # check marker only plot > fig = plt.figure() > ax = fig.add_subplot(111) > ax.plot(x, y, 'o') > ax.plot(x, y, 'd', markevery=None) > ax.plot(x, y, 's', markevery=10) > ax.plot(x, y, '+', markevery=(5, 20)) > fig.canvas.draw() > plt.close(fig) > > # check line/marker combos > fig = plt.figure() > ax = fig.add_subplot(111) > ax.plot(x, y, '-o') > ax.plot(x, y, '-d', markevery=None) > ax.plot(x, y, '-s', markevery=10) > ax.plot(x, y, '-+', markevery=(5, 20)) > fig.canvas.draw() > plt.close(fig) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
