Matplotlib Color Palette

Question

Is it possible to change what colors Matplotlib cycles through when it is generating its own colors for a graph's lines? I'm using the pylab module.

from pylab import *
import matplotlib.cm as cm

x=[1,2,3,4]
y=[5,6,7,8]

fig1 = Figure()

plot1 = fig1.add_subplot(311)
plot1.plot(x,y)

plot2 = fig1.add_subplot(312)
plot2.plot(x,y)

plot3 = fig1.add_subplot(313)
plot3.plot(x,y)

Answer 1

Yes, of course. Since it accept many kinds of color definition. It's easy to define your own color map. Here I just get colors from the colormap hot

import pylab as py
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.cm as cm
a = np.arange(0,10)

py.figure()
for i in np.arange(10):
    c = cm.hot(i/10.,1)
    py.plot(a,i*a,color=c)

py.show()