Linestyle in matplotlib step function
linestyle, matplotlib, python
Solution
As of mpl 1.3.0 this is fixed upstream
You have to come at it a bit sideways as `step` seems to ignore `linestyle`. If you look at what `step` is doing underneath, it is just a thin wrapper for plot.
You can do what you want by talking to `plot` directly:
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot(range(5), range(5), linestyle='--', drawstyle='steps')
plt.plot(range(5), range(5)[::-1], linestyle=':', drawstyle='steps')
plt.xlim([-1, 5])
plt.ylim([-1, 5])
`['steps', 'steps-pre', 'steps-mid', 'steps-post']` are the valid values for `drawstyle` and control where the step is drawn.
Pull request resulting from this question, I personally think this is a bug. [edit: this has been pulled into master and should show up in v1.3.0].
Problem
Is it possible to set the linestyle in a matplotlib step function to dashed, dotted, etc.? I've tried: ``` step(x, linestyle='--'), step(x, '--') ``` But it did not help.