Re: [Matplotlib-users] properties of patch of an axes instance.

[Curiouslearn <cur...@gm...>]

Thanks very much Paul. This worked great.

I wonder then what edgecolor, linewidth etc. change in case of axes.patch.

Thanks again.

On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Paul Ivanov <piv...@gm...> wrote:
> Curiouslearn, on 2011-02-08 15:32,  wrote:
>> Sorry if the subject line does not use correct terminology. But the
>> following explains the question I have:
>> Suppose I have the following code:
>>
>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>
>> fig1 = plt.figure()
>> ax1 = fig1.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>>
>> ax1.scatter(xvalues, yvalues)
>> ax1.axvline(1.3, color='DarkGreen')
>> rect = ax1.patch
>> rect.set_facecolor('SteelBlue')  #This works
>> rect.set_edgecolor('red') # Is it supposed to set the color of the
>> border. If so, this DOES NOT work.
>> rect.set_linestyle('dashed')  # This DOES NOT work.
>> rect.set_linewidth(4) # This DOES NOT work.
>>
>> For the things that do not work, I tried both
>>
>> plt.show()
>>
>> and,
>>
>> plt.savefig('this_figure.pdf')
>>
>> Why do the things that I have indicated do not work?
>>
>> My second question is, if I want to have only the x-axis and y-axis
>> line (i.e., get rid of the right edge and top edge of the axes frame)
>> how do I do it?
>
> The names of the things you want to change are called spines.
>
> You want:
>
>  ax1.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
>  ax1.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
>  ax1.spines['left'].set_color('red')
>  ax1.spines['bottom'].set_color('red')
>  #and so on for .set_linestyle, .set_linewidth
>
> To hide the tickmarks that are right next to the spines, you can
> do:
>
>  ax1.xaxis.tick_bottom()
>  ax1.yaxis.tick_left()
>
> and finally, to color the ticks in red as well, do:
>
>  ax1.tick_params(color='red')
>
> best,
> --
> Paul Ivanov
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