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Description
Problem
It would be great if I could put something like this in my matplotlibrc to use the petroff10 color sequence by default:
axes.prop_cycle : cycler('color', 'petroff10')
Proposed solution
Currently if a single string is supplied we try to interpret as a list of single character colors
matplotlib/lib/matplotlib/rcsetup.py
Lines 105 to 108 in a9dc9ac
None of the current built in color sequences can be interpreted that way, so it would not be ambiguous to try both that and querying the color sequence registry. However, maybe we would need something to guard against user- or third-party-defined color sequences having a name like "rygbk"?