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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Cycler passed as string for rc","articleBody":"Hello, I think I have found a bug with cycler when It is passed as a string for rc parameters. Here is example code I have\n\n```\nimport pylab as plt\n\n### WORKS\nplt.rc(\"axes\",prop_cycle=plt.cycler('linestyle', ['-', (0,(5,5))]) )\nplt.plot([1,2])\nplt.plot([1,4])\nplt.show()\n\n### ERROR\n\nplt.rc(\"axes\",prop_cycle=\"cycler('linestyle', ['-', (0,(5,5))])\" )\nplt.plot([1,2])\nplt.plot([1,4])\nplt.show()\n```\n\nWhen I run this code the first part works but the second part produces a long error - [error.txt](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/files/509552/error.txt). I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and upgraded matplotlib to 1.5.3 with pip today.  \n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/JanisErdmanis","@type":"Person","name":"JanisErdmanis"},"datePublished":"2016-10-04T21:24:15.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/7219/matplotlib/issues/7219"}