Re: [Matplotlib-users] Outline for histogram bars

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ted To <rai...@th...> wrote:

> Perfect!  Many thanks!  Seems to be an undocumented feature...
>
>
Not undocumented. In the docs for hist(), it says that it accepts any
parameter that is used for Patch artists. This is also generally true for
many of the other plotting functions. They usually take any additional
keyword arguments that could be passed on to whatever the artist is that is
returned. This isn't a hard-and-fast rule, but it is true more often than
not.



> Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind using 'dashed' and
> 'dashdot' instead of '--' and '-.'?
>
>
This is an inadvertent oversight. I noted this in
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2136

Cheers!
Ben Root