hv.Cycle() does not cycle through the entire list of colors

[ahuang11]

After the 5th color, it starts from the first.

color_cycle = hv.Cycle([
                   'red',
                   'yellow',
                   'orange',
                   'green',
                   'blue',
                   'gray',
                   'black',
                   'brown',
                   'purple',
                   'pink'
                   ])

%%opts Curve (line_color=color_cycle)
ds.to.curve('target', 'valid_z', ['lead']).overlay()

[philippjfr]

I believe this is because all cycles get tied together and since there is already a Cycle on color that one defines the length. I'd be strongly in favor of changing that behavior.

[ahuang11]

A hack would be to just to double/triple the length color by repeating it. That way, the length would also be doubled/tripled without the default color list changed?

i.e if color was defined like this:

color = ['red', 'yellow',  'orange', 'green', 'blue'] * 2

Also is there a workaround for cycling through more than 5 colors?

[philippjfr]

In this case I'd just override the default color cycle like this:

%%opts Curve (color=color_cycle)
ds.to.curve('target', 'valid_z', ['lead']).overlay()

color is an alias for line_color in this case, with the latter taking precedence.

[ahuang11]

Oh, awesome; that worked. Is there a workaround for box-whisker plots?

Unexpected style option 'color' for BoxWhisker in loaded backend 'bokeh'.

[jlstevens]

I agree..the shortest cycle shouldn't determine the length of the overall cycle. It should be the opposite and loop to match the longest cycle definition...

[ahuang11]

To answer my own question, the style options cmap works for box-whisker plots.