Apply built-in plotting styles

This example shows how to switch between built-in plotting styles for a single dataset without changing the plotting code itself.

from pathlib import Path

import spectrochempy as scp

Inspect available styles

dataset = scp.read("irdata/nh4y-activation.spg")[0]

styles_dir = Path(scp.preferences.stylesheets)
available_styles = sorted(f.stem for f in styles_dir.glob("*.mplstyle"))
print(available_styles[:8])

Apply a style to one plot only

_ = dataset.plot(style="grayscale")

Combine style with plot options

_ = dataset.plot(style="grayscale", xlim=(1800, 1500), grid=True)

Change defaults via preferences

original_style = scp.preferences.style
scp.preferences.style = "ggplot"
_ = dataset.plot()
scp.preferences.style = original_style

Uncomment the following line to display all figures when running the script directly with Python.

# scp.show()