Re: [Matplotlib-users] Legend Marker Color Bug

[Goyo <goy...@gm...>]

2012/8/28 Sterling Smith <sm...@fu...>:
> List,
>
> Consider the following script:
>
> import pylab
> pylab.plot(pylab.linspace(0,1,100),label='Test',marker='o',ls='')
> pylab.plot(pylab.linspace(0,1,100),label='Test2',marker='o',ls='-')
> leg=pylab.legend(loc='best')
> line=leg.get_lines()
> line[0].set_color('black')
> line[1].set_color('black')
> pylab.draw()
>
> I am attaching the results I see with the TkAgg baackend.  I am using version 1.1.0.
>
> I would expect the markers to change colors also.  However, I can't seem to find the markers recorded in the legend object to be able to change them.  Is this a bug or a feature (resetting the color could lead to inconsistencies between legend and plot)?


I think it's a design issue, there's no connection kept between plot
lines and the legend. You can change colors in the plot an then call
legend again instead.

Cheers

Goyo