Specifying the order of layers

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I don’t know why zorder has that behavior and it’s likely that might be a bug or, at the very least, a badly documented feature. It might be because there are already automatic references to zorder when you build a plot (like grid, axis, and so on…) and when you try to specify the zorder for elements you are somehow overlapping them. This is hypothetical in any case.

For you to solve your problem just make the differences in zorder exaggerated. For instance instead of 0,1,2, make it 0,5,10:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

lineWidth = 20
plt.figure()
plt.plot([0,0],[-1,1], lw=lineWidth, c="b",zorder=10)
plt.plot([-1,1],[-1,1], lw=lineWidth, c="r",zorder=5)
plt.plot([-1,1],[1,-1], lw=lineWidth, c="g",zorder=0)
plt.show()

Which results in this:

Handling zorder in mataplotlib

For this plot I specified the opposite order shown in your question.

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