Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting colors for hist

[Jeff K. <kl...@wi...>]

I was not aware of color cycles, but it looks like this is the way to
go about solving my problem.

Below is an example that actually works.

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import pylab as P

mu, sigma = 200, 25

x0 = mu + sigma*P.randn(10000)
x1 = mu + sigma*P.randn(7000)
x2 = mu + sigma*P.randn(3000)

# Set the color cycle of the axes rather than using a kwarg
P.gca().set_color_cycle([(0.5,0.,0.),
                         (0.,0.5,0.),
                         (0.,0.,0.5)])
n, bins, patches = P.hist([x0,x1,x2], 50, normed=1, histtype='bar')

P.show()
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