How to view all colormaps available in matplotlib?

Question

I was wondering if there is a function call that can give me the name of all colormaps available in matplotlib?

It used to be possible by something along the lines o

Answer 1

plt.colormaps() returns a list of all registered colormaps. From the docs:

matplotlib.pyplot.colormaps()

Matplotlib provides a number of colormaps, and others can be added using register_cmap(). This function documents the built-in colormaps, and will also return a list of all registered colormaps if called.

The list this returns includes viridis, magma, inferno and plasma for me in 1.5.0