a few of the parameters are floats. This is a quick hack to get a couple of them to work. In the future matplotlibcpp should use map<string,any> instead of map<string,string> for kwargs. That should be a separate PR

pf · lava · commit 107912124d9d · 2020-06-17T18:45:55.000+02:00
diff --git a/matplotlibcpp.h b/matplotlibcpp.h
@@ -1834,7 +1834,10 @@ inline void axvspan(double xmin, double xmax, double ymin = 0., double ymax = 1.
     PyObject* kwargs = PyDict_New();
     for(std::map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator it = keywords.begin(); it != keywords.end(); ++it)
     {
-        PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyString_FromString(it->second.c_str()));
+	if (it->first == "linewidth" || it->first == "alpha")
+    	    PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyFloat_FromDouble(std::stod(it->second)));
+  	else
+    	    PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyString_FromString(it->second.c_str()));
     }
 
     PyObject* res = PyObject_Call(detail::_interpreter::get().s_python_function_axvspan, args, kwargs);

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -1834,7 +1834,10 @@ inline void axvspan(double xmin, double xmax, double ymin = 0., double ymax = 1.`
`1834`	`1834`	`PyObject* kwargs = PyDict_New();`
`1835`	`1835`	`for(std::map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator it = keywords.begin(); it != keywords.end(); ++it)`
`1836`	`1836`	`{`
`1837`		`- PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyString_FromString(it->second.c_str()));`
	`1837`	`+ if (it->first == "linewidth" \|\| it->first == "alpha")`
	`1838`	`+ PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyFloat_FromDouble(std::stod(it->second)));`
	`1839`	`+ else`
	`1840`	`+ PyDict_SetItemString(kwargs, it->first.c_str(), PyString_FromString(it->second.c_str()));`
`1838`	`1841`	`}`
`1839`	`1842`
`1840`	`1843`	`PyObject* res = PyObject_Call(detail::_interpreter::get().s_python_function_axvspan, args, kwargs);`