matplotlib: default color cycle from style

Question

Is there any way to recover the default color cycle used for plotting lines, which is somehow defined by the matplotlib stylesheet.

Since the pie function does not use the default colors, I would like to force it to use them.

thomas · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-23 15:34:28Z

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You can get the color cycle from the rc-params.

>>> from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
>>> color_cycle = plt.rcParams['axes.color_cycle']
>>> color_cycle
[u'b', u'g', u'r', u'c', u'm', u'y', u'k']

This can then be used as the colors argument to plt.pie.

answered Nov 23, 2015 at 15:34

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languitar Over a year ago

Unfortunately this doesn't work easily with 1.5 as the rc params there contains a cycler instance and not the raw array.

thomas Over a year ago

Maybe then you can cycle through as many colours as you need for your pie chart.

languitar Over a year ago

The problem is that the cycle includes a property name. Some it seems I have to wrap some code around it to be usable again :/

languitar Over a year ago

I'll accept this anyway now since there doesn't seem to be any other way to achieve this.

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