Re: [Matplotlib-users] Outline for histogram bars

[Ted To <rai...@th...>]

Perfect!  Many thanks!  Seems to be an undocumented feature...

Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind using 'dashed' and
'dashdot' instead of '--' and '-.'?

Ted To

On 11/12/2013 04:59 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Ted To <rai...@th...
> <mailto:rai...@th...>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Is there an option to change the line style for the outline of histogram
>     bars?  What I am looking for some something like the attached kernel
>     density plot.  I can set different colors (attached) but this is not
>     very useful when printing in black and white.
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>     Thanks,
>     Ted To
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> You should be able to specify linestyle='dashed' (or 'dashdot', or
> 'dotted') when you call hist().
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> I hope that helps!
> Ben Root