watex.utils.plotutils.make_mpl_properties#

watex.utils.plotutils.make_mpl_properties(n, prop='color')[source]#

make matplotlib property (‘colors’, ‘marker’, ‘line’) to fit the numer of samples

Parameters:

n – int, Number of property that is needed to create. It generates a group of property items.
prop – str, default=’color’, name of property to retrieve. Accepts only ‘colors’, ‘marker’ or ‘line’.

Returns:

list of property items with size equals to n.

Example:

>>> from watex.utils.plotutils import make_mpl_properties
>>> make_mpl_properties (10 )
... ['g',
     'gray',
     'y',
     'blue',
     'orange',
     'purple',
     'lime',
     'k',
     'cyan',
     (0.6, 0.6, 0.6)]
>>> make_mpl_properties(100 , prop = 'marker')
... ['o',
     '^',
     'x',
     'D',
      .
      .
      .
     11,
     'None',
     None,
     ' ',
     '']
>>> make_mpl_properties(50 , prop = 'line')
... ['-',
     '-',
     '--',
     '-.',
       .
       .
       .
     'solid',
     'dashed',
     'dashdot',
     'dotted']