Re: [Matplotlib-users] line properties

[Sandro T. <mo...@de...>]

Hi Bala,

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 15:25, Bala subramanian
<bal...@gm...> wrote:
> Friends,
> I am going through John Hunter's The Matplotlib User’s Guide. In the user
> guide, one of the three ways of changing the line properties is given as
> follows
>
> Using set to control line properties
>>>> l i n e s = p l o t ( t , s1 )
>>>> s e t ( l i n e s , ma r k e r s i z e =15 , marker=’d’ , \
> . . . ma r k e r f a c e c o l o r =’g’ , ma r k e r e d g e c o l o r =’r’
> )
>
> But when i try the same i get the following error, Kindly someone help me to
> understand what i am doing wrong.

I think there's some sort of typo there, since it's setp

> In [31]: new=plot(t,s)
>
> In [32]: set(new, markersize=15)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> TypeError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
>
> /home/cbala/<ipython console> in <module>()
>
> TypeError: set() does not take keyword arguments

In [6]: new = plt.plot(x,y)

In [7]: plt.setp(new, linewidth=10)
Out[7]: [None]

works as expected.

Cheers,
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