Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting a colored symbol with plot command

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 07:59:52AM -0700, Michael Rawlins wrote:
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>  From: Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> To: Michael Rawlins <raw...@ya...> 
> Cc: "mat...@li..." <mat...@li...> 
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 4:21 AM
> Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting a colored symbol with plot command
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 02:39:12PM -0700, Michael Rawlins wrote:
> > 
> >  From: Damon McDougall <dam...@gm...>
> > To: Michael Rawlins <raw...@ya...> 
> > Cc: "mat...@li..." <mat...@li...> 
> > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 4:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting a colored symbol with plot command
> >  
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 09:20:47PM +0100, Damon McDougall wrote:
> 
> > 
> > If I use plt.plot(x, y, color='g', marker='.', markersize=3.0)
> > 
> > the dots are black.
> 
> That should not happen... Have you tried some of the other colours? 'r',
> 'b', 'm', 'y', 'c'? Are they all black? What are you saving the file as? What
> is the output of:
> 
> plt.get_backend()
> 
> 
> Yes I've tried several. All produce black dots. The output of that command is 'agg'.  I use:
> 
> plt.savefig('map.eps')
> 
> to produce eps images.
> 

Bizarre. I am still seeing green dots.

Could you provide a very minimal example for which you see black dots?
It'd be nice to understand what's going on.

Also, what's the output of

import matplotlib
print matplotlib.__version__

Thanks.

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