Re: [Matplotlib-users] linestyles in matplotlib.pyplot.plot

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

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Goutam Paul <gou...@ie...> wrote:
> It seems that there are only five line-styles:
>
> "-" (solid) – default
> "--" (dashed)
> "-." (dash dot)
> ":" (dotted)
> "None" or " " or "" (nothing)
>
> What if I want to have more linestyles? Say, ++, **, xx, ~~, etc. Is it
> possible to have user-defined linestyles? How?
>

User-defined line styles is difficult. There is an open github issue
on this topic: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/346

Though, porting some of the existing markers over as linestyles would
be a nice addition, I think.

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