How can I hide a line behind marker?

Question

I want to draw a graph for my school report.

As I should use a marker that has a small dot at center of it, I can't use the default filled circle marker. So I referred to the STIX font table and found that U+2299 satisfies the requirement. However, when I executed the code below, I got a figure in which the line penetrates the plot. How can I hide the line behind these markers so that it won't overlap with them? Any advice would be much appreciated.

values = [i for i in range(3)]
plt.plot(values, values, label="line")
plt.scatter(values, values, marker=u"$\u2299$", s=500, label="marker")
plt.legend()

you could plot the data twice. first with a white circle and then above a second time with the desired character. — user_na, May 19 '21 at 10:47
Altenative to `marker=u"$\u2299$"` is to use `marker=r'$\odot$'` — user_na, May 19 '21 at 11:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 19 '21 at 11:09

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If I got you right you are looking for something like this:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure()
values = [i for i in range(3)]
plt.plot(values, values, label="line", zorder=1)
plt.scatter(values, values, s=250, c='w', zorder=2)
plt.scatter(values, values, marker=u"$\u2299$", s=500, label="marker", zorder=3)
plt.legend()

answered May 19 '21 at 11:09

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This is exactly what I desired! Thank you – t0d4 May 19 '21 at 12:10

How can I hide a line behind marker?

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