LinearSegmentedColormap.from_file¶

static LinearSegmentedColormap.from_file(path, warn_on_failure=False)[source]¶

Load colormap from a file. Valid file extensions are described in the below table.

Extension	Description
`.hex`	List of HEX strings in any format (comma-separated, separate lines, with double quotes… anything goes).’ColorBlind10’:
`.xml`	XML files with `<Point .../>` entries specifying `x`, `r`, `g`, `b`, and optionally, `a` values, where `x` is the colormap coordinate and the rest are the RGB and opacity (or “alpha”) values.
`.rgb`	3-column table delimited by commas or consecutive spaces, each column indicating red, blue and green color values.
`.xrgb`	As with `.rgb`, but with 4 columns. The first column indicates the colormap coordinate.
`.rgba`, `.xrgba`	As with `.rgb`, `.xrgb`, but with a trailing opacity (or “alpha”) column.

Parameters

path (str) – The file path.
warn_on_failure (bool, optional) – If True, issue a warning when loading fails rather than raising an error.