Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-20 Thread Gary Ruben
Just an idea: Maybe you could also auto cycle between dash types if only the colour and not the dash type is specified in a plot command. The gnuplot default would be one model, or the predefined patterns in CorelDraw or Inkscape etc. Personally I don't see this as a high priority though.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-19 Thread Neal Becker
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Neal Becker apparently wrote: Can I get nice default line styles and markers, automatically set up with matching legend? Automatically chosen? I don't want to have to go through and manually choose each marker and line style. Well, you have to

Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-19 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Neal Becker apparently wrote: IIUC, in order to have each line with distinct line style, I have to explicitly set the line style. I want pylab to just choose them, just as it does for colors. Well, pylab does choose: it varies color and not the dash pattern in order

Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-19 Thread John Hunter
On Feb 19, 2008 9:13 AM, Alan G Isaac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course you can do something like this:: from itertools import cycle mystyles = ['r+-', 'b.--', 'go-.'] #etc ax1styles = cycle( mystyles ) You can also cycle through the list matplotlib uses import

Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-15 Thread Alan G Isaac
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Neal Becker apparently wrote: Can I get nice default line styles and markers, automatically set up with matching legend? Automatically chosen? I don't want to have to go through and manually choose each marker and line style. Well, you have to ask for a legend, but

[Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-14 Thread Neal Becker
Can matplotlib automatically choose line styles and/or markers for a group of plots? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] automatically choose line markers/styles?

2008-02-14 Thread Neal Becker
Alan G Isaac wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Neal Becker apparently wrote: Can matplotlib automatically choose line styles and/or markers for a group of plots? http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlibrc Although I prefer to pass in a dict of keyword arguments. Not sure what you're