fill_between always below plot lines

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Hi I am using fill_between command in python, but it seems that the fill_between is always below the line plots. See this example, the alpha=1, so it is not invisible. All the lines should not be seen when they are in the fill_between location. But I still see them. iptyhon --pylab ``` plot([0,1],[1,1],'r') plot([0,1],[2,2],'g') plot([0,1],[0.5,0.5],'b') plot([0,1],[3,3],'k') fill_between([0,0.25],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightGreen') fill_between([0.3,0.45],[0,3.5],facecolor='Salmon') fill_between([0.5,0.7],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightBlue') fill_between([0.75,0.95],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightYellow') ``` When I use alpha = 0.5 I still get something that is not correct, the correct behavior is that each line will change is color when it is in the same location as the fill_between, but you see the color of the lines does not change... ``` plot([0,1],[1,1],'r') plot([0,1],[2,2],'g') plot([0,1],[0.5,0.5],'b') plot([0,1],[3,3],'k') fill_between([0,0.25],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightGreen',alpha=0.5) fill_…

Accepted Answer

You can fix this using the `zorder` kwarg:

```
plot([0,1],[1,1],'r',zorder=1)
plot([0,1],[2,2],'g',zorder=1)
plot([0,1],[0.5,0.5],'b',zorder=1)
plot([0,1],[3,3],'k',zorder=1)

fill_between([0,0.25],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightGreen',zorder=2)
fill_between([0.3,0.45],[0,3.5],facecolor='Salmon',zorder=2)
fill_between([0.5,0.7],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightBlue',zorder=2)
fill_between([0.75,0.95],[0,3.5],facecolor='LightYellow',zorder=2)
```

fill_between always below plot lines

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