Re: [Matplotlib-users] Set matplotlibrc color cycle to custom colors using axes.prop_cycle (v1.5)

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

You can't use the hash symbol when doing colors as a hex in an rcfile. The
rcfile parser is so simple that it treats it as a comment. Don't drop the
quotes.

Ben Root

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 12:51 AM, Thomas Caswell <tca...@gm...> wrote:

> Not at a computer to test, but try dropping the quotes.
>
> On Sun, Dec 20, 2015, 20:56 Julian Irwin <jul...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set my default color cycle in my matplotlibrc using
>> axes.prop_cycle. The documentation (as far as I could find...) only gives
>> examples like
>>
>> axes.prop_cycle    : cycler('color', 'bgrcmyk')
>>
>>
>> And then the comment below says, cryptically:
>>
>> # as list of string colorspecs:
>> # single letter, long name, or
>> # web-style hex
>>
>> But I have tried all sorts of variatns on:
>>
>> axes.prop_cycle    : cycler('color', ['#e41a1c', '#377eb8', '#4daf4a', '#ff7f00', '#a65628', '#f781bf', '#999999', '#984ea3', '#ffff33'])
>>
>> But I always get an error upon importing matplotlib. Is there any doc on
>> how to do this properly? Is this even supported?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Julian
>>
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