Thread: Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting lines with shaded / transparent region for standard deviation

John Hunter wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, per freem<perfreem@gm...> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> is there a way in matplotlib to plot lines with errorbars, e.g. using
>> errorbar(...) but instead of lines just have shaded, partly transparent
>> regions that represent the error bars? people often use this to show
>> confidence intervals or error bars... an example is here:
>>
>> http://eva.nersc.no/vhost/arctic-roos.org/doc/observations/images/ssmi1_ice_ext.png
>>
>> where the black line has shaded grey bands around. i'd like to plot
>> something like this but have the band be partly transparent.
>
>I use fill_between for this -- draw the line with "plot" and the
>shaded region with "fill_between".
Hi,
I also need error band plotting regularly (also the loglog and semilog
versions) and currently have some quickly written code to do this in
matplotlib.
If I clean up my code and submit a patch to axes and pyplot classes,
would it have a chance to be accepted?
Teemu

Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I also need error band plotting regularly (also the loglog and semilog
> versions) and currently have some quickly written code to do this in
> matplotlib.
> 
> If I clean up my code and submit a patch to axes and pyplot classes,
> would it have a chance to be accepted?
> 
Yes.
Eric
> Teemu

Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> 
> I also need error band plotting regularly (also the loglog and semilog
> versions) and currently have some quickly written code to do this in
> matplotlib.
> 
> If I clean up my code and submit a patch to axes and pyplot classes,
> would it have a chance to be accepted?
> 
> Teemu
Also, if you haven't already, see 
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/devel/coding_guide.html.
Eric