René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"_axes.py linestyle_map unused","articleBody":"[This thing](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/f544a83db199ec35f4839f4d9ad2b0ca38965904/lib/matplotlib/axes/_axes.py#L3559-L3564) seem to be unused to me:\n\n```\n        linestyle_map = {\n            'solid': '-',\n            'dashed': '--',\n            'dashdot': '-.',\n            'dotted': ':'\n        }\n```\n\nI'm not sure if this is on purpose, from git log it seem like it used to be to allow what is now `final_boxprops` to support the \"dotted\", \"solid\" keyword somewhere (not sure where).  \nIf it's not usefull anymore it might be removed I guess. \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/Carreau","@type":"Person","name":"Carreau"},"datePublished":"2016-09-22T17:11:17.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":11},"url":"https://github.com/7162/matplotlib/issues/7162"}