MatPlotLib question: How to get more different size plot symbols ?

[John Hunter]

>>>>> "Colombes" == Colombes  <DrColombes at yahoo.com> writes:

    Colombes> MatPlotLib question: How to get more different size plot
    Colombes> symbols in the plot function ?

    Colombes> Is there a way to get different size squares (or circles
    Colombes> or triangles, etc.) ?

    Colombes> For example, in a two dimensional plot of heights and
    Colombes> weights of individuals, is there a way to represent also
    Colombes> the age of the individual by the size of the plot symbol
    Colombes> ?

Yes, you will want to use the scatter function for this.  With "plot",
you can change the size of the symbols with the markersize keyword
argument, but all of the markers must be the same size.  With scatter,
the individual marker size (and colors) can vary.

See 

 example code: http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/scatter_demo.py

 screenshot: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html#scatter_demo2

 scatter help: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.matlab.html#-scatter

scatter support the following marker shapes (currently all regular
polygons)

    's' : square
    'o' : circle
    '^' : triangle up
    '>' : triangle right
    'v' : triangle down
    '<' : triangle left
    'd' : diamond
    'p' : pentagram
    'h' : hexagon
    '8' : octagon

Hope this helps,
JDH