Re: [Matplotlib-users] Access to color cycle?

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

2014-03-05 21:13 GMT+01:00 Adam Hughes <hug...@gm...>:
> Thanks Andreas.  That is correct; however, I'd rather not make this change
> global.  I only want a subset of my plots to have this behavior.  I feel
> like changing the rcparams would change this globally and probably confuse
> users who don't know this is being called.

Try using rc_context:

with plt.rc_context(rc={'axes.color_cycle': ['orange', default_cycle[1::]]}):
    plt.plot(...)

This should change the color cycle only within the scope of the with
clause (not tested with this particular rcparam).

Goyo