how to extract a subset of a colormap as a new colormap in matplotlib?

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The staticmethod colors.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list can be used to create new LinearSegmentedColormaps. Below, I sample the original colormap at 100 points between 0.2 and 0.8:

cmap(np.linspace(0.2, 0.8, 100))

and use these colors to generate a new colormap:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import matplotlib.colors as colors
import numpy as np

def truncate_colormap(cmap, minval=0.0, maxval=1.0, n=100):
    new_cmap = colors.LinearSegmentedColormap.from_list(
        'trunc({n},{a:.2f},{b:.2f})'.format(n=cmap.name, a=minval, b=maxval),
        cmap(np.linspace(minval, maxval, n)))
    return new_cmap

arr = np.linspace(0, 50, 100).reshape((10, 10))
fig, ax = plt.subplots(ncols=2)

cmap = plt.get_cmap('jet')
new_cmap = truncate_colormap(cmap, 0.2, 0.8)
ax[0].imshow(arr, interpolation='nearest', cmap=cmap)
ax[1].imshow(arr, interpolation='nearest', cmap=new_cmap)
plt.show()

enter image description here

The plot on the left shows the image using the original colormap (in this example, jet). The plot on the right shows the same image using new_cmap.

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