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@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2013-03-19 Added support for passing `linestyle` kwarg to `step` so all `plot`
+	   kwargs are passed to the underlying `plot` call.  -TAC
+
 2013-02-25 Added classes CubicTriInterpolator, UniformTriRefiner, TriAnalyzer
            to matplotlib.tri module. - GBy
 
 
@@ -4809,7 +4809,8 @@ def step(self, x, y, *args, **kwargs):
         if where not in ('pre', 'post', 'mid'):
             raise ValueError("'where' argument to step must be "
                              "'pre', 'post' or 'mid'")
-        kwargs['linestyle'] = 'steps-' + where
+        usr_linestyle = kwargs.pop('linestyle', '')
+        kwargs['linestyle'] = 'steps-' + where + usr_linestyle
 
         return self.plot(x, y, *args, **kwargs)