# Function to make an automatic colour list holding Hex values.

create_N_colours_list.py

import colorsys

def get_N_HexCol(N=5):

    HSV_tuples = [(x*1.0/N, 1, 1) for x in xrange(N)]
    hex_out = []
    for rgb in HSV_tuples:
        rgb = map(lambda x: int(x*255),colorsys.hsv_to_rgb(*rgb))
        hex_out.append("".join(map(lambda x: chr(x).encode('hex'),rgb)))
    return ["#"+c_value for c_value in hex_out]