text: """
  
  MATLAB and pylab allow you to use setp and get to set and get
  object properties, as well as to do introspection on the object
  
  set
      To set the linestyle of a line to be dashed, you can do
  
        >>> line, = plot([1,2,3])
        >>> setp(line, linestyle='--')
  
      If you want to know the valid types of arguments, you can provide the
      name of the property you want to set without a value
  
        >>> setp(line, 'linestyle')
            linestyle: [ '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'steps' | 'None' ]
  
      If you want to see all the properties that can be set, and their
      possible values, you can do
  
          >>> setp(line)
  
      set operates on a single instance or a list of instances.  If you are
      in quey mode introspecting the possible values, only the first
      instance in the sequnce is used.  When actually setting values, all
      the instances will be set.  Eg, suppose you have a list of two lines,
      the following will make both lines thicker and red
  
          >>> x = arange(0,1.0,0.01)
          >>> y1 = sin(2*pi*x)
          >>> y2 = sin(4*pi*x)
          >>> lines = plot(x, y1, x, y2)
          >>> setp(lines, linewidth=2, color='r')
  
  
  get:
  
      get returns the value of a given attribute.  You can use get to query
      the value of a single attribute
  
          >>> getp(line, 'linewidth')
              0.5
  
      or all the attribute/value pairs
  
      >>> getp(line)
          aa = True
          alpha = 1.0
          antialiased = True
          c = b
          clip_on = True
          color = b
          ... long listing skipped ...
  
  Alisases:
  
    To reduce keystrokes in interactive mode, a number of properties
    have short aliases, eg 'lw' for 'linewidth' and 'mec' for
    'markeredgecolor'.  When calling set or get in introspection mode,
    these properties will be listed as 'fullname or aliasname', as in
  
  
  
  
  """
  
  from pylab import *
  
  
  x = arange(0,1.0,0.01)
  y1 = sin(2*pi*x)
  y2 = sin(4*pi*x)
  lines = plot(x, y1, x, y2)
  l1, l2 = lines
  setp(lines, linestyle='--')       # set both to dashed
  setp(l1, linewidth=2, color='r')  # line1 is thick and red
  setp(l2, linewidth=1, color='g')  # line2 is thicker and green
  
  
  print 'Line setters'
  setp(l1)
  print 'Line getters'
  getp(l1)
  
  print 'Rectangle setters'
  setp(gca().patch)
  print 'Rectangle getters'
  getp(gca().patch)
  
  t = title('Hi mom')
  print 'Text setters'
  setp(t)
  print 'Text getters'
  getp(t)
  
  show()
  