René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Default color after setting alptha to Patch in legened","articleBody":"### Bug report\r\nAfter setting alpha to legend Patch, the color of edited patch resets to default(blue).\r\n\r\n**Code for reproduction**\r\n\r\n```python\r\n\"\"\"\r\n========\r\nBarchart\r\n========\r\n\r\nA bar plot with errorbars and height labels on individual bars\r\n\"\"\"\r\nimport matplotlib.pyplot as plt\r\nimport numpy as np\r\n\r\nN = 5\r\nmen_means = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)\r\nmen_std = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2)\r\n\r\nind = np.arange(N)  # the x locations for the groups\r\nwidth = 0.35  # the width of the bars\r\n\r\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\r\nrects1 = ax.bar(ind, men_means, width, color='r', yerr=men_std)\r\n\r\nwomen_means = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)\r\nwomen_std = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3)\r\nrects2 = ax.bar(ind + width, women_means, width, color='y', yerr=women_std)\r\n\r\n# add some text for labels, title and axes ticks\r\nax.set_ylabel('Scores')\r\nax.set_title('Scores by group and gender')\r\nax.set_xticks(ind + width / 2)\r\nax.set_xticklabels(('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'))\r\n\r\nleg = ax.legend((rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('Men', 'Women'))\r\n\r\n#this line causes bug - reset to default color(blue)\r\nleg.get_patches()[0].set_alpha(0.854321)\r\n\r\nplt.show()\r\n```\r\n\r\n**Actual outcome**\r\n![obraz](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16255826/36615032-17f0e40e-18df-11e8-86ad-6570e5f3745e.png)\r\n**Expected outcome**\r\n![obraz](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/16255826/36615150-930c4b1a-18df-11e8-8c90-567bd1e45b54.png)\r\n\r\n\r\n**Matplotlib version**\r\n  * Matplotlib version: 2.1.2\r\n  * Python version: 2.7\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/KonradAdamczyk","@type":"Person","name":"KonradAdamczyk"},"datePublished":"2018-02-23T20:24:22.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/10574/matplotlib/issues/10574"}