Re: [Matplotlib-users] errorbar plot caps

2008-05-06 Thread Michael Droettboom
That's a good one! Here's what I see happening: By default (without manually specifying zorder), all Collections are drawn before all Lines. In an errorbar, the data itself and the caps are both drawn using Lines, but the errorbar is drawn using a LineCollection. So what you're seeing is a s

[Matplotlib-users] errorbar plot caps

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Brown
Hi mpl users, I have noticed that when making a figure using the errorbar function, a cap line will show up over a marker if they happen to fall on top of one another. The line connecting the caps is (properly) hidden under the marker. This behavior only occurs if the overlapping marker was pla