Re: [matplotlib-devel] Plot line style cycle?

On 08/25/2011 04:09 AM, Benjamin Root wrote:
> I am currently in the process of a paper submission, and the page charge
> estimation took us for a bit of a surprise.  Luckily, most of my plots
> don't need color, and I would like to regenerate them in b&w mode.
>
> Is there some default line style cycle (I.e., ['-', '.', '--', '.-'])
> that can be set analogous to the color cycle used by default?

Something like this came up a while ago as a feature request--same sort 
of motivation, I think--but it was never implemented.

You could make a little function that would operate on line objects, 
changing colors from the color cycle to black while using those colors 
to specify line styles.

Eric

>
> Thanks,
> Ben Root