Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting tick colors on a Polar plot for a circumplex

[Paul I. <piv...@gm...>]

Damien Bathory, on 2011-01-11 15:27,  wrote:
> Hi All.
> ...
> I want to change the color of the ticklines set by set_thetagrids(), but I
> am not having any luck.
> ( See black instead of green ticklines here:
> http://i1234.photobucket.com/albums/ff405/dbathory/circum.png )
> 
> Should I be able manipulating the ticklines in this way after calling
> set_theagrids?
> 
> for line in ax.xaxis.get_ticklines():
>     line.set_color('g')
> 
> I've also tried using the tick_params() call to set the default tickline
> color, with no luck.
> I've tried this on matplotlib v1.00 and v98.1, with the same results (black
> instead of green).

Hi Damien,

Those aren't ticks, those are grid lines (verify by pressing 'g'
after selecting the axes to toggle the grid on and off).

  ax.grid(color='green')

is what you can use to set the grid line color (and other aspects, like
linewidth, linestyle, alpha, etc).

hope that helps,
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