IEEE oriented plotting for spyder

plot.py

figsize = (3.5, 3.5)
#plt.style.use('grayscale')
plt.rc('font', size = 10, **{'family':'serif','serif':['Times New Roman']})
plt.rc('text', usetex=True)
plt.rc('legend', fancybox=True)
colors = plt.rcParams['axes.color_cycle']

def lines(x, ys, labels, filename):
    series = len(ys)
    xlabels = x;
    x = arange(len(dof))    
    xdelta = abs(x[-1]-x[0])
    f, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=figsize)
    for i, y in enumerate(ys):
        ax.plot(x, y, ':.', alpha=.5, ms=15, label=labels[i], linewidth=2)
    ax.spines['right'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['top'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['bottom'].set_visible(False)
    ax.spines['left'].set_visible(False)
    plt.xlim(x[0]-xdelta*.1, x[-1]+xdelta*.1)
    plt.ylabel(u"Speed-up")
    plt.xlabel(u"Graus de Liberdade")
    plt.legend(loc=0)
    plt.xticks(x, ["%i" % a for a in dof])
    plt.grid(axis='y')
    f.savefig(filename)

lines(x, [y1, y2, y3], ["Label 1", "Label 2", "Label 3"], "graphname.pdf")