MNT: use more explicit internal names + add comment

tacaswell · tacaswell · commit 0d42553fd7e2 · 2017-01-16T12:27:48.000-05:00
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/_color_data.py b/lib/matplotlib/_color_data.py
@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
     'w': (1, 1, 1)}
 
 
-T10_COLORS = {
+# These colors are from Tableau
+TABLEAU_COLORS = {
     'blue': '#1f77b4',
     'orange': '#ff7f0e',
     'green': '#2ca02c',
@@ -29,7 +30,8 @@
 
 
 # Normalize name to "tc:<name>" to avoid name collisions.
-T10_COLORS = {'tc:' + name: value for name, value in T10_COLORS.items()}
+TABLEAU_COLORS = {'tc:' + name: value
+                  for name, value in TABLEAU_COLORS.items()}
 
 
 # This mapping of color names -> hex values is taken from
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/colors.py b/lib/matplotlib/colors.py
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 from numpy import ma
 import matplotlib.cbook as cbook
-from ._color_data import BASE_COLORS, T10_COLORS, CSS4_COLORS, XKCD_COLORS
+from ._color_data import BASE_COLORS, TABLEAU_COLORS, CSS4_COLORS, XKCD_COLORS
 
 
 class _ColorMapping(dict):
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def __delitem__(self, key, value):
 # Set by reverse priority order.
 _colors_full_map.update(XKCD_COLORS)
 _colors_full_map.update(CSS4_COLORS)
-_colors_full_map.update(T10_COLORS)
+_colors_full_map.update(TABLEAU_COLORS)
 _colors_full_map.update(BASE_COLORS)
 _colors_full_map = _ColorMapping(_colors_full_map)
 
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ def to_hex(c, keep_alpha=False):
 ### Backwards-compatible color-conversion API
 
 cnames = CSS4_COLORS
-COLOR_NAMES = {'xkcd': XKCD_COLORS, 'css4': CSS4_COLORS, 'tc': T10_COLORS}
+COLOR_NAMES = {'xkcd': XKCD_COLORS, 'css4': CSS4_COLORS, 'tc': TABLEAU_COLORS}
 hexColorPattern = re.compile("\A#[a-fA-F0-9]{6}\Z")
 
 
