Re: [Matplotlib-users] unfilled markers?

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Rob Hetland <he...@ta...> wrote:
>
> On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Eric Firing wrote:
>
>> Setting
>> mfc to "none" is what turns off the filling.
>
> As a slightly off-topic question, is there a reason that the argument
> is the string 'none' instead of a normal python None?

None means use the rc param, so it is overloaded here.  Not
particularly elegant, but None was already in use for all the line
properties and we needed some way to specify unfilled.