[Matplotlib-users] easily accessing the default color cycle list

[Benjamin Root]

This feature will be in the upcoming 2.0 release. It isn't in the 1.5.x
series.

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 1:01 PM, Ilya Flyamer <flyamer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Michael,
>
> I think the new colours can be used as 'C0', 'C1', etc, if that helps?
>
> Ilya
>
> 2017-01-10 17:57 GMT+00:00 Michael Kaufman <kaufmanmc at ornl.gov>:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> With the new color cycle, it's no longer super easy for me to manually
>> set plotting colors (that still conform to the new default colors) without
>> a cheat sheet.
>>
>> Recently I've been doing:
>>
>> cols = rcParams['axes.prop_cycle'].by_key()['color']
>>
>> to get the list. This is something that I cannot remember and have search
>> through old code to find every time.
>>
>> Is there an easier way to access this list? Something like:
>>
>> from matplotlib.colors import color_cycle
>> cols = color_cycle('default')
>>
>> would be quite nice. Maybe something like this already exists?
>>
>>
>> M
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