[matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] define color cycle in matplotlibrc

2010-01-03 Thread Eric Firing
http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-us...@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14772.html The above thread includes two reasonable requests: 1) add color cycle as an rcParam 2) add a line style cycle as well The first of these is easier to implement, although it requires a bit more than the patch

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] define color cycle in matplotlibrc

2010-01-03 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: 1) Should the the color_cycle be in the axes group?  Although it affects lines, it is defined only at the Axes level, and affects only lines drawn by plot. Alternative: since it affects only plot, should there be a new plot

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] define color cycle in matplotlibrc

2010-01-03 Thread Eric Firing
2) It was pointed out that there is a strange connection between the color cycle and the lines.color rcParam. This connection looks to me like a bit of legacy that can be dropped with little risk of pain in user land, since the default would still be to have the initial color in the cycle

Re: [matplotlib-devel] [Matplotlib-users] define color cycle in matplotlibrc

2010-01-03 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Eric Firing efir...@hawaii.edu wrote: The only problem is that lines.color is the default for LineCollection and Line2D, both of which are fairly separate from Axes, so having them default to rcParams['axes.color_cycle'][0] seems a little odd. Yes, I was