SF.net SVN: matplotlib: [5628] trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/colors.py

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Revision: 5628
          http://matplotlib.svn.sourceforge.net/matplotlib/?rev=5628&view=rev
Author:   efiring
Date:     2008-06-22 01:19:56 -0700 (Sun, 22 Jun 2008)

Log Message:
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Improve docstrings, inheritance of ListedColormap

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/colors.py

Modified: trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/colors.py
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--- trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/colors.py	2008-06-21 21:07:54 UTC (rev 5627)
+++ trunk/matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/colors.py	2008-06-22 08:19:56 UTC (rev 5628)
@@ -540,18 +540,19 @@
         self._set_extremes()
 
 
-class ListedColormap(LinearSegmentedColormap):
+class ListedColormap(Colormap):
     """Colormap object generated from a list of colors.
 
-    Color boundaries are evenly spaced.  This is intended for simulating
-    indexed color selection, but may be useful for generating
-    special colormaps also.
+    This may be most useful when indexing directly into a colormap,
+    but it can also be used to generate special colormaps for ordinary
+    mapping.
     """
     def __init__(self, colors, name = 'from_list', N = None):
         """
         Make a colormap from a list of colors.
 
-        colors is a list of matplotlib color specifications
+        colors is a list of matplotlib color specifications,
+            or an equivalent Nx3 floating point array (N rgb values)
         name is a string to identify the colormap
         N is the number of entries in the map.  The default is None,
             in which case there is one colormap entry for each


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