Chevron linestyle in matplotlib

Question

Is it possible to make a dashed linestyle using more complicated shapes in matplotlib (or any other python plotting library)? It's easy to make a linestyle with different spacings and combinations of dots and dashes, but I'm after something like this:

I can envision a way of doing it by writing a function from scratch to take a custom chevron marker style and working out the angle to display it at and the correct spacing etc. However that seems like an overly complicated way to address the problem that will easily break down for things like different specified line widths.

Answer 1

If you find a better latex symbol, you could do something like this.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib
matplotlib.rc('text', usetex=True)
matplotlib.rcParams['text.latex.preamble'] = [r'\boldmath', r'\usepackage{amsmath}', r'\usepackage{amssymb}', r'\usepackage{fontawesome}']
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot('111')
ax.plot(np.linspace(0,10,10),np.repeat(10,10),marker='$>$',ls='',ms=50,mew=10)
plt.show()

Look at the symbols in the fontawesome latex package, it might have something closer to what you're wanting. Then you can substitute the marker marker='$>$' for another latex symbol.