matplotlib.axes.Axes.barh

Axes.barh(bottom, width, height=0.8, left=None, **kwargs)

Make a horizontal bar plot.

Make a horizontal bar plot with rectangles bounded by:

left, left + width, bottom, bottom + height

(left, right, bottom and top edges)

bottom, width, height, and left can be either scalars or sequences

Parameters:

bottom : scalar or array-like

the y coordinate(s) of the bars

width : scalar or array-like

the width(s) of the bars

height : sequence of scalars, optional, default: 0.8

the heights of the bars

left : sequence of scalars

the x coordinates of the left sides of the bars

Returns:

matplotlib.patches.Rectangle instances.

Other Parameters:  

color : scalar or array-like, optional

the colors of the bars

edgecolor : scalar or array-like, optional

the colors of the bar edges

linewidth : scalar or array-like, optional, default: None

width of bar edge(s). If None, use default linewidth; If 0, don’t draw edges.

tick_label : string or array-like, optional, default: None

the tick labels of the bars

xerr : scalar or array-like, optional, default: None

if not None, will be used to generate errorbar(s) on the bar chart

yerr : scalar or array-like, optional, default: None

if not None, will be used to generate errorbar(s) on the bar chart

ecolor : scalar or array-like, optional, default: None

specifies the color of errorbar(s)

capsize : scalar, optional

determines the length in points of the error bar caps default: None, which will take the value from the errorbar.capsize rcParam.

error_kw :

dictionary of kwargs to be passed to errorbar method. ecolor and capsize may be specified here rather than as independent kwargs.

align : {‘center’, ‘edge’}, optional

If ‘edge’, aligns bars by their left edges (for vertical bars) and by their bottom edges (for horizontal bars). If ‘center’, interpret the bottom argument as the coordinates of the centers of the bars. To align on the align bars on the top edge pass a negative ‘height’.

log : boolean, optional, default: False

If true, sets the axis to be log scale

See also

bar

Plot a vertical bar plot.

Notes

The optional arguments color, edgecolor, linewidth, xerr, and yerr can be either scalars or sequences of length equal to the number of bars. This enables you to use bar as the basis for stacked bar charts, or candlestick plots. Detail: xerr and yerr are passed directly to errorbar(), so they can also have shape 2xN for independent specification of lower and upper errors.

Other optional kwargs:

Property	Description
agg_filter	unknown
alpha	float or None
animated	[True | False]
antialiased or aa	[True | False] or None for default
axes	an Axes instance
capstyle	[‘butt’ | ‘round’ | ‘projecting’]
clip_box	a matplotlib.transforms.Bbox instance
clip_on	[True | False]
clip_path	[ (Path, Transform) | Patch | None ]
color	matplotlib color spec
contains	a callable function
edgecolor or ec	mpl color spec, None, ‘none’, or ‘auto’
facecolor or fc	mpl color spec, or None for default, or ‘none’ for no color
figure	a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance
fill	[True | False]
gid	an id string
hatch	[‘/’ | ‘\’ | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’]
joinstyle	[‘miter’ | ‘round’ | ‘bevel’]
label	string or anything printable with ‘%s’ conversion.
linestyle or ls	[‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or lw	float or None for default
path_effects	unknown
picker	[None|float|boolean|callable]
rasterized	[True | False | None]
sketch_params	unknown
snap	unknown
transform	Transform instance
url	a url string
visible	[True | False]
zorder	any number