Matplotlib Plot Lines with Colors Through Colormap

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The Matplotlib colormaps accept an argument (0..1, scalar or array) which you use to get colors from a colormap. For example:

col = pl.cm.jet([0.25,0.75])

Gives you an array with (two) RGBA colors:

array([[ 0. , 0.50392157, 1. , 1. ],
[ 1. , 0.58169935, 0. , 1. ]])

You can use that to create N different colors:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as pl

x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 64)
y = np.cos(x) 

pl.figure()
pl.plot(x,y)

n = 20
colors = pl.cm.jet(np.linspace(0,1,n))

for i in range(n):
    pl.plot(x, i*y, color=colors[i])

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