.. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note Click :ref:`here ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_marker_reference.py: ================================ Filled and unfilled-marker types ================================ Reference for filled- and unfilled-marker types included with Matplotlib. .. code-block:: default from six import iteritems import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from matplotlib.lines import Line2D points = np.ones(3) # Draw 3 points for each line text_style = dict(horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='center', fontsize=12, fontdict={'family': 'monospace'}) marker_style = dict(linestyle=':', color='cornflowerblue', markersize=10) def format_axes(ax): ax.margins(0.2) ax.set_axis_off() def nice_repr(text): return repr(text).lstrip('u') def split_list(a_list): i_half = len(a_list) // 2 return (a_list[:i_half], a_list[i_half:]) Plot all un-filled markers .. code-block:: default fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=2) # Filter out filled markers and marker settings that do nothing. # We use iteritems from six to make sure that we get an iterator # in both python 2 and 3 unfilled_markers = [m for m, func in iteritems(Line2D.markers) if func != 'nothing' and m not in Line2D.filled_markers] # Reverse-sort for pretty. We use our own sort key which is essentially # a python3 compatible reimplementation of python2 sort. unfilled_markers = sorted(unfilled_markers, key=lambda x: (str(type(x)), str(x)))[::-1] for ax, markers in zip(axes, split_list(unfilled_markers)): for y, marker in enumerate(markers): ax.text(-0.5, y, nice_repr(marker), **text_style) ax.plot(y * points, marker=marker, **marker_style) format_axes(ax) fig.suptitle('un-filled markers', fontsize=14) .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_marker_reference_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-script-out Out: .. code-block:: none Text(0.5,0.98,'un-filled markers') Plot all filled markers. .. code-block:: default fig, axes = plt.subplots(ncols=2) for ax, markers in zip(axes, split_list(Line2D.filled_markers)): for y, marker in enumerate(markers): ax.text(-0.5, y, nice_repr(marker), **text_style) ax.plot(y * points, marker=marker, **marker_style) format_axes(ax) fig.suptitle('filled markers', fontsize=14) plt.show() .. image:: /gallery/lines_bars_and_markers/images/sphx_glr_marker_reference_002.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. _sphx_glr_download_gallery_lines_bars_and_markers_marker_reference.py: .. only :: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer :class: sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Python source code: marker_reference.py ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: marker_reference.ipynb ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature Keywords: matplotlib code example, codex, python plot, pyplot `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_