One nice thing about gnuplot is the option its GUI provides to toggle 
between using coloured lines and using black lines with various dashed 
patterns. I think it would be nice in matplotlib to also be able to have 
a default series of dashed patterns that could automatically be cycled 
through.

Gary R

Eric Firing wrote:
> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
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>> OK I started hacking and added a color_cycle property to matplotlibrc.
>> Would you be so kind to add this fix to the official version? Thanks!
>> Dominik
> 
> Your basic idea--that the colorcycle should be settable in 
> rcParams--makes good sense, but the implementation needs some changes, 
> maybe including a bit of redesign of the color cycle handling.  I will 
> look into it.  A little discussion on the devel list may be required.  I 
> think we will want to completely decouple lines.color from a new 
> lines.colorcycle, but maybe there is some good reason, other than 
> history, for why they are coupled.

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