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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"prop_cycle breaks keyword aliases","articleBody":"Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.10 (squeeze) and OSX 10.11.4, Python 3.5.1, matplotlib 1.5.1 (anaconda 4.0.5)\n\nSetting the prop_cycle for an axis breaks the usage of keyword aliases in the plot function. In the following snippets the keyword `lw=0.1` is ignored, but `linewidth=0.1` produces the wanted result.\n\nMaybe it is worth mentioning that `color` is still accessible via its alias `c` after setting a prop_cycle.\n\nIf it seems weird to set the prop_cycle to just ignore it: I stumbled across this problem while playing around with stylesheets to set a default cycle through different linestyles. But sometimes you want to explicitly change this behaviour.\n\n``` python\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\nax.set_prop_cycle('linewidth', [2, 3, 4])\nfor c in range(5):\n    ax.plot(np.arange(10), c * np.arange(10), lw=0.1)\n```\n\n![broken](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9482218/14878368/67b54a4e-0d23-11e6-8c1e-5e5f2d777a0b.png)\n\n``` python\nfig, ax = plt.subplots()\nax.set_prop_cycle('linewidth', [2, 3, 4])\nfor c in range(5):\n    ax.plot(np.arange(10), c * np.arange(10), linewidth=0.1)\n```\n\n![working](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9482218/14878374/6bc90d00-0d23-11e6-8f82-5e939869f28a.png)\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/lkluft","@type":"Person","name":"lkluft"},"datePublished":"2016-04-28T07:36:56.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/6343/matplotlib/issues/6343"}