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

2012-07-22 Thread klo uo
Thanks for your reply Ben, On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > As for the assertion that HTML colors aren't used, that is incorrect. The > named colors follow the HTML list. Here is our list: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/colors.py#L

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

2012-07-22 Thread JonBL
Using FuncFormatter with my conversion procedure has solved my problem. I did not use the Python datetime module to generate the tickmark labels as some of your examples suggested. Instead, my conversion procedure pulls the required formatted date string for an x-axis ticklabel date serial number

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

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:27 PM, JonBL wrote: > > 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 num

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

2012-07-22 Thread Benjamin Root
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:21 PM, klo uo wrote: > 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