How do I set color to Rectangle in Matplotlib?

Question

How do I set color to Rectangle for example in matplotlib? I tried using argument color, but had no success.

I have following code:

fig=pylab.figure()
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Answer 1

I couldn't get your code to work, but hopefully this will help:

import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
rect1 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((-200,-100), 400, 200, color='yellow')
rect2 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((0,150), 300, 20, color='red')
rect3 = matplotlib.patches.Rectangle((-300,-50), 40, 200, color='#0099FF')
circle1 = matplotlib.patches.Circle((-200,-250), radius=90, color='#EB70AA')
ax.add_patch(rect1)
ax.add_patch(rect2)
ax.add_patch(rect3)
ax.add_patch(circle1)
plt.xlim([-400, 400])
plt.ylim([-400, 400])
plt.show()

produces: