[Matplotlib-users] tuple-marker in style sheet

[Julian]

On 08/09/2017 04:53 PM, Julian Gethmann wrote:
> On 08/09/2017 04:17 PM, Benjamin Root wrote:
>> This *might* be fixed in master. Which version of matplotlib are you 
>> using?
> Ah, ok. I tested it with matplotlib 2.0.2 (anaconda Python 3.6.2 build)
Now I also tested the current master branch from github, but I also get 
the same error message if I use parenthesis.
Do you know of which issue you were thinking of?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Julian Gethmann <
>> mail.python.org at gethmann.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> is it possible, and if so how, to define a marker with the tuple
>>> definition (numsides, style, angle) [1] inside a style sheet (or
>>> matplotlibrc)?
>>>
>>> For normal markers I use the axes.prop_cycle like
>>> ```
>>> axes.prop_cycle: cycler("marker", ["x", "+", "1"])
>>> ```
>>> . If I now want to insert a tuple like marker,
>>> ```
>>> axes.prop_cycle: cycler("marker", ["x", "+", (5, 2, 1)])
>>> ```
>>>   then it is being transformed into a string `"(5, 2, 1)"`.
>>> If I don't use parenthesis like in other tuple values in the 
>>> matplotlibrc
>>> (e. g. `#lines.dashed_pattern : 2.8, 1.`[2]) then it is interpreted as
>>> three different marker styles which do not exist [3].
>>>
>>> [1] http://matplotlib.org/api/markers_api.html
>>> [2] http://matplotlib.org/_static/matplotlibrc
>>> [3] in my example: `ValueError: Unrecognized marker style 5`
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks,
>>>
>>> Julian
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