Can't set marker fillstyle

[ibell]

On windows, I can't seem to set the marker using a MarkerStyle instance (should this be possible?). If I am doing this wrong, how DO I set the fillstyle?

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.markers import MarkerStyle
plt.scatter([1,2,3], [1,4,9], marker = MarkerStyle('o', fillstyle = 'top'))
plt.show()

yields

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "markers.py", line 4, in <module>
    plt.scatter([1,2,3], [1,4,9], marker = MarkerStyle('o', fillstyle = 'top'))
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\pyplot.py", line 3200, in scatter
    linewidths=linewidths, verts=verts, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\axes\_axes.py", line 3632, in scatter
    marker_obj = mmarkers.MarkerStyle(marker)
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\markers.py", line 169, in __init__
    self.set_marker(marker)
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\markers.py", line 244, in set_marker
    Path(marker)
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\matplotlib\path.py", line 137, in __init__
    vertices = np.asarray(vertices, np.float_)
  File "C:\Users\ihb\AppData\Local\Continuum\Miniconda\lib\site-packages\numpy\core\numeric.py", line 462, in asarray
    return array(a, dtype, copy=False, order=order)
TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number

Me:

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In [1]: import matplotlib

In [2]: matplotlib.__version__
Out[2]: '1.4.2'

[tacaswell]

I think this has come up before #3895 but not yet fixed. The issue seems to be that scatter does not check that marker input is makerstyle objects and then does a bunch of internal magic to extract the path that is then passed to the underlying PathCollection.

[ibell]

Thanks!

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Eric Firing notifications@github.com
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