Re: [Matplotlib-users] Outline for histogram bars

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

Thanks Ben!

I was wondering if you can help me with a related question.  How does
one change the artist for the legend?  Since I have a "step" histogram,
it would be nice to have the legend display lines rather than outlined
rectangles.

Thanks,
Ted

On 11/13/2013 09:35 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
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> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ted To <rai...@th...
> <mailto:rai...@th...>> wrote:
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>     Perfect!  Many thanks!  Seems to be an undocumented feature...
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> 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.
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>     Out of curiosity, what is the rationale behind using 'dashed' and
>     'dashdot' instead of '--' and '-.'?
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> This is an inadvertent oversight. I noted this in
> https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/2136
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> Cheers!
> Ben Root