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[Matplotlib-users] what decides which lines go on top of the rest

[Valentino G. <vgg...@uc...>]

I am trying to make a scatter plot (it is important that it is a scatter 
plot because I want the markers to be color coded).  Each point also has 
errobars associated and since there is no way to plot errorbars on 
scatter plots I am plotting them separately, i.e. plot twice: once with 
the errorbars and no markers and then with only markers as in a scatter 
plot. 
The problem is that regardless of the order in which I do this, the 
errorbars are alwas on top of the markers of the scatter plot and I 
would like the opposite, markers on top of the errorbars.  Can  this be 
done? And more generally, how can I choose what goes on top of what?

Thanks,
Valentino.-

Re: [Matplotlib-users] what decides which lines go on top of the rest

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Valentino Gonzalez <vgg...@uc...> wrote:
> I am trying to make a scatter plot (it is important that it is a scatter
> plot because I want the markers to be color coded).  Each point also has
> errobars associated and since there is no way to plot errorbars on scatter
> plots I am plotting them separately, i.e. plot twice: once with the
> errorbars and no markers and then with only markers as in a scatter plot.
> The problem is that regardless of the order in which I do this, the
> errorbars are alwas on top of the markers of the scatter plot and I would
> like the opposite, markers on top of the errorbars.  Can  this be done? And
> more generally, how can I choose what goes on top of what?

You should be able to pass zorder=<number> to the plotting functions
to control the order.

Ryan

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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma