[FIXED] How do I set color to Rectangle in Matplotlib?

Issue

How do I set color to Rectangle for example in matplotlib? I tried using argument color, but had no success.

I have following code:

fig=pylab.figure()
ax=fig.add_subplot(111)

pylab.xlim([-400, 400])    
pylab.ylim([-400, 400])
patches = []
polygon = Rectangle((-400, -400), 10, 10, color='y')
patches.append(polygon)

p = PatchCollection(patches, cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet)
ax.add_collection(p)
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(20))    
ax.yaxis.set_major_locator(MultipleLocator(20))    

pylab.show()

Solution

I couldn't get your code to work, but hopefully this will help:

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
rect1 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((-200,-100), 400, 200, color='yellow')
rect2 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((0,150), 300, 20, color='red')
rect3 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((-300,-50), 40, 200, color='#0099FF')
circle1 = matplotlib.patches.Circle((-200,-250), radius=90, color='#EB70AA')
ax.add_patch(rect1)
ax.add_patch(rect2)
ax.add_patch(rect3)
ax.add_patch(circle1)
plt.xlim([-400, 400])
plt.ylim([-400, 400])
plt.show()

produces:

Answered By - fraxel