So I found the following code here:
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
someX, someY = 0.5, 0.5
plt.figure()
currentAxis = plt.gca()
currentAxis.add_patch(Rectangle((someX - .1, someY - .1), 0.2, 0.2,alpha=1))
plt.show()
Which gives:
But what I want is a rectangle with only a blue border and inside of it to be transparent. How can I do this?
You just need to set the facecolor to the string 'none' (not the python None)
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
someX, someY = 0.5, 0.5
fig,ax = plt.subplots()
currentAxis = plt.gca()
currentAxis.add_patch(Rectangle((someX - 0.1, someY - 0.1), 0.2, 0.2,
alpha=1, facecolor='none'))
fill is expecting a boolean; so you could keep fill=True and still get a hollow rectangle with facecolor='none' in the case that you were looping through different colors and 'none' was one of them.
You should set the fill=None.
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
someX, someY = 0.5, 0.5
plt.figure()
currentAxis = plt.gca()
currentAxis.add_patch(Rectangle((someX - .1, someY - .1), 0.2, 0.2, fill=None, alpha=1))
plt.show()
