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@rcomer rcomer commented Dec 13, 2024

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Proposal to fix #28298. If the linewidth is zero then the dash pattern is arbitrary, so set the scaled pattern to None, which is the same as solid lines.

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c.set_linewidth(0)

# With a zero linewidth, there can be no pattern
assert c.get_linestyle() == [(0, None)]
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Note that "solid" results in [('', None)] instead which I believe is incorrect wrt. to the declared type.

We are overall not consistent and clear what get_linestyle() means:

  • for Line2D.get_linestyle() it is always a str, and if given a dash pattern, the result is "--".
  • for Patch.get_linestyle(), we basically get what we put in str or (unscaled) dash pattern; with the exception of normalizing "no style" ' ', '', 'none' to "None"
  • for Collections, we always get a scaled dash pattern.

While this fix may be ok as a workaround to fix the original issue (and doesn't make the consisteny worse), we should generally agee upon what get_linestyle() means - and a scaled dash pattern would be the last of my choices.

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Actually looking closer, I don't think the legend handler should be getting the scaled pattern - it gets scaled again on the patch, so is wrong for any linewidth != 1.

I'll close this.

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[Bug]: set linestyle='dashed' raise error with quiver and legend
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