Re: [matplotlib-devel] marker color handling: matplotlibrc versus args and kwargs

[Eric F. <ef...@ha...>]

Norbert,


>>Either I am not understanding you correctly, or we have fundamentally 
>>different views of the role of matplotlibrc values.  The way I see it, 
>>function args and kwargs *always* override matplotlibrc values, which in 
>>turn *always* override built-in defaults.  So in the example above, if 
>>the user writes "plot(x,y,'r.')", red dots should be plotted no matter 
>>what is in matplotlibrc.  It should not depend on whether something is 
>>set to 'auto'.
>>  
> 
> 
> I fully agree with you.
> 
> Guess, the simple solution to the dilemma is to drop the idea of
> rcfile-configurability of markerfacecolor and markeredgecolor. That way,
> markers would always have the same color as the line, unless explicitely
> set differently by the kwargs markeredgecolor/markerfacecolor.
> 
> This is, what is wanted in 99% of the cases and for every other case, a
> rcfile-option will not help anyway.

This sounds ideal to me--it makes everything simpler, both in the code 
and in explaining what the behavior is.

Thanks!

Eric