Thanks Ben! I was wondering if you can help me with a related question. How does one change the artist for the legend? Since I have a "step" histogram, it would be nice to have the legend display lines rather than outlined rectangles.
Thanks, Ted On 11/13/2013 09:35 AM, Benjamin Root wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ted To <rainexpec...@theo.to > <mailto:rainexpec...@theo.to>> wrote: > > Perfect! Many thanks! Seems to be an undocumented feature... > > > Not undocumented. In the docs for hist(), it says that it accepts any > parameter that is used for Patch artists. This is also generally true > for many of the other plotting functions. They usually take any > additional keyword arguments that could be passed on to whatever the > artist is that is returned. This isn't a hard-and-fast rule, but it is > true more often than not. > > > > Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind using 'dashed' and > 'dashdot' instead of '--' and '-.'? > > > This is an inadvertent oversight. I noted this in > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2136 > > Cheers! > Ben Root ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DreamFactory - Open Source REST & JSON Services for HTML5 & Native Apps OAuth, Users, Roles, SQL, NoSQL, BLOB Storage and External API Access Free app hosting. Or install the open source package on any LAMP server. Sign up and see examples for AngularJS, jQuery, Sencha Touch and Native! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=63469471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
