Merge pull request matplotlib#20537 from anntzer/stylesort

Don't sort boxstyles/arrowstyles/etc. alphabetically.

Author: QuLogic

examples/shapes_and_collections/fancybox_demo.py

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 fig = plt.figure(figsize=(4 / 1.5, figheight / 1.5))
 fontsize = 0.3 * 72
 
-for i, stylename in enumerate(sorted(styles)):
+for i, stylename in enumerate(styles):
     fig.text(0.5, (spacing * (len(styles) - i) - 0.5) / figheight, stylename,
              ha="center",
              size=fontsize,

lib/matplotlib/patches.py

@@ -2138,7 +2138,7 @@ def _simpleprint_styles(_styles):
     {stylename: styleclass}, return a string rep of the list of keys.
     Used to update the documentation.
     """
-    return "[{}]".format("|".join(map(" '{}' ".format, sorted(_styles))))
+    return "[{}]".format("|".join(map(" '{}' ".format, _styles)))
 
 
 class _Style:
@@ -2184,7 +2184,7 @@ def pprint_styles(cls):
                     f'``{name}``',
                     # [1:-1] drops the surrounding parentheses.
                     str(inspect.signature(cls))[1:-1] or 'None')
-                   for name, cls in sorted(cls._style_list.items())]]
+                   for name, cls in cls._style_list.items()]]
         # Convert to rst table.
         col_len = [max(len(cell) for cell in column) for column in zip(*table)]
         table_formatstr = '  '.join('=' * cl for cl in col_len)