Re: [Matplotlib-users] wrapping y axis tick labels?

2012-07-21 Thread Mark Lawrence
On 21/07/2012 05:15, Benjamin Root wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:55 PM, C M cmpyt...@gmail.com wrote: How possible would it be to wrap y axis tick labels after a certain text length? I have a horizontal bar plot where some bars' labels are too long and therefore cut off. I can scrunch

[Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread klo uo
Hi, I read previous mail about colormaps which reminded me to a question I had about MPL colors. Colors in MPL plots are dark, and pale, and not is some specific color theme but it's just pale dark. I thought that usually people make plots brighter (as more attractive ;) ) If you can, have a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread Felix Patzelt
Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really large green area. Green should be dark and not (0, 255, 0)! The same applies to cyan and yellow. Were the colors like you want them, they would be

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Additional line styles - comparison excel chart

2012-07-21 Thread Benjamin Jonen
Hey guys, thanks for your answers. Nicolas, your showcase seems to be exactly what I'm after. To make this a little more user-friendly it would be nice to create ones own line style from this so that it can be easily incorporated in the plotting command, i.e. ax.plot( ,

[Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread klo uo
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Felix Patzelt wrote: Have you ever been in a talk where someone uses 100% green on a slide? The result is usually that no one can see what is shown unless it is a really large green area. No, but I would have expected in that case appropriate bg. I've seen a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread Felix Patzelt
You want this? import matplotlib as mpl mpl.rcParams['axes.color_cycle'] = ['#FF', '#00FF00', '#FF', '#00', 'FF00FF', '00', '00'] # test it from pylab import * import matplotlib.cm as cm x = linspace(0, 2*pi, num=100, endpoint=True) for i in range(1, 10): plot(x,

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Fwd: Possible to change MPL color scheme?

2012-07-21 Thread klo uo
Ah all right, thanks for the tips :) I somehow missed that setting while browsing matplotlibrc Cheers On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Felix Patzelt wrote: You want this? import matplotlib as mpl mpl.rcParams['axes.color_cycle'] = ['#FF', '#00FF00', '#FF', '#00',

[Matplotlib-users] How to Change Axis Tick Mark Labels

2012-07-21 Thread JonBL
I have a line plot where the x-axis values are numbers, with displayed tick mark values of 0, 100, 200 ... 500 - a total of 6 tick marks. These values represent the number of days since a certain date. I have a function which converts a number such as 100, to date string '23-Jun-11', which I want