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

[Julian I. <jul...@gm...>]

Ahh, the hashes were the problem!

Thanks for your help.

Julian

On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Benjamin Root <ben...@gm...> wrote:

> 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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