[BUG] pyplot backend ignores plot order

[bvilmann]

Details

I am experiencing that the pyplot() backend ignores the order that the various plots are being called.

Plotting order:

• plot(Shape()): regions
• plot!(): lines
• scatter!(): dots with names
• I even tried annotate!() without luck

Problem Annotations with pyplot() is in the most of the cases plotted before scatter point, which is not correct. However, in one instance the annotation is plotted before the plot(Shape()).

With pyplot() backend (notice the region that is the most dark blue ("Berlin") have no number):

With gr() backend:

Workaround? My further problem is that I cannot use the gr() backend to finish my plot, since the padding for the hidden axes are maintained.

• Is there a way I can either readjust the plot margins and minimize the space between plot and colorbar with gr()?
• Is there a way to organize the plotting order with pyplot()?

Bonus

• The arrow from gr() backend is not really that nice. Is there a way I can modify it? I could not much from the documentation.

All the best, Benjamin

Backends

This bug occurs on ( insert x below )

Backend	yes	no	untested
gr (default)		x
pyplot	x
plotly			x
plotlyjs			x
pgfplotsx			x
inspectdr			x

Versions

Plots.jl version: Plots v1.9.1

Output of versioninfo():

Julia Version 1.5.2
Commit 539f3ce943 (2020-09-23 23:17 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7500U CPU @ 2.70GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-9.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA = C:\Users\Benjamin\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia 1.5.2
  JULIA_EDITOR = "C:\Users\Benjamin\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.53.0\atom.exe"  -a
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 2

Backend version (]st -m): List is rather long since I am using following packages:

  [75c7ada1] DBFTables v0.2.2
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v0.22.1
  [89b67f3b] ExcelFiles v1.0.0
  [91a5bcdd] Plots v1.9.1

See following comment for full list.

[bvilmann]

Backend version (]st -m):

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