matplotlib - black & white colormap (with dashes, dots etc)

Question

I am using matplotlib to create 2d line-plots. For the purposes of publication, I would like to have those plots in black and white (not grayscale), and I a

Answer 1

I heavily did use Yann's code, but today I read an answer from Can i cycle through line styles in matplotlib So now I will make my BW plots in this way:

import pylab as plt
from itertools import cycle
lines = ["k-","k--","k-.","k:"]
linecycler = cycle(lines)
plt.figure()
for i in range(4):
    x = range(i,i+10)
    plt.plot(range(10),x,next(linecycler))
plt.show()