Is there a list of line styles in matplotlib?

Question

I'm writing a script that will do some plotting. I want it to plot several data series, each with its unique line style (not color). I can easily iterate through a list, but is there such a list already available in python?

Answer 1

According to the doc you could find them by doing this :

from matplotlib import lines lines.lineStyles.keys() >>> ['', ' ', 'None', '--', '-.', '-', ':'] 

You can do the same with markers

EDIT: In the latest versions, there are still the same styles, but you can vary the space between dots/lines.

Answer 2

plot documentation

http://matplotlib.org/1.5.3/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.plot has a list of line + marker styles:

character description '-'       solid line style '--'      dashed line style '-.'      dash-dot line style ':'       dotted line style '.'       point marker ','       pixel marker 'o'       circle marker 'v'       triangle_down marker '^'       triangle_up marker '<'       triangle_left marker '>'       triangle_right marker '1'       tri_down marker '2'       tri_up marker '3'       tri_left marker '4'       tri_right marker 's'       square marker 'p'       pentagon marker '*'       star marker 'h'       hexagon1 marker 'H'       hexagon2 marker '+'       plus marker 'x'       x marker 'D'       diamond marker 'd'       thin_diamond marker '|'       vline marker '_'       hline marker 

Since this is part of the pyplot.plot docstring, you can also see it from the terminal with:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt help(plt.plot)