Eric Firing wrote: > 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.
Done in commits ending with 8220. Illustrated in examples/pylab_examples/histogram_demo_extended.py. Thanks for your work on this. (There is probably quite a bit more cleanup and refactoring that could be done. Much of the plotting capability of hist could be factored out for other uses, for example.) Eric > > 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
