matplotlib.axes.Axes.broken_barh

Axes.broken_barh(xranges, yrange, **kwargs)

Plot horizontal bars.

A collection of horizontal bars spanning yrange with a sequence of xranges.

Required arguments:

Argument	Description
xranges	sequence of (xmin, xwidth)
yrange	sequence of (ymin, ywidth)

kwargs are matplotlib.collections.BrokenBarHCollection properties:

Property	Description
agg_filter	unknown
alpha	float or None
animated	[True | False]
antialiased or antialiaseds	Boolean or sequence of booleans
array	unknown
axes	an Axes instance
clim	a length 2 sequence of floats
clip_box	a matplotlib.transforms.Bbox instance
clip_on	[True | False]
clip_path	[ (Path, Transform) | Patch | None ]
cmap	a colormap or registered colormap name
color	matplotlib color arg or sequence of rgba tuples
contains	a callable function
edgecolor or edgecolors	matplotlib color spec or sequence of specs
facecolor or facecolors	matplotlib color spec or sequence of specs
figure	a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance
gid	an id string
hatch	[ ‘/’ | ‘\’ | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’ ]
label	string or anything printable with ‘%s’ conversion.
linestyle or dashes or linestyles	[‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or linewidths or lw	float or sequence of floats
norm	unknown
offset_position	unknown
offsets	float or sequence of floats
path_effects	unknown
picker	[None|float|boolean|callable]
pickradius	unknown
rasterized	[True | False | None]
sketch_params	unknown
snap	unknown
transform	Transform instance
url	a url string
urls	unknown
visible	[True | False]
zorder	any number

these can either be a single argument, i.e.,:

facecolors = 'black'

or a sequence of arguments for the various bars, i.e.,:

facecolors = ('black', 'red', 'green')

Example:

(Source code, png, pdf)

Note

In addition to the above described arguments, this function can take a data keyword argument. If such a data argument is given, the following arguments are replaced by data[<arg>]:

• All positional and all keyword arguments.