Re: [Matplotlib-users] delete instance of axvspan

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Feb 12, 2008 12:23 PM, Pierre GM <pgm...@gm...> wrote:


>         self.plot(current._dates-shift, current._series, lw=lw, ls=ls, c=c,
>                   scalex=False, scaley=False)
>         self.highlightedline = len(self.lines)-1        #
>         return self.highlightedline
>
> As you see, I have an extra attribute (highlightedfreq) that stores the index
> of the highlighted line: when I need to deselect the highlighted curve, I
> just delete the corresponding element of the lines list.

I haven't tested this, but a more direct route may be (plot returns a
list of lines and the "myline," idiom extracts the first element into
the variable "myline")

  myline, = ax.plot(x, y, ...)

and then later when you want to remove:

  ax.lines.remove(myline)

Hope this helps,
JDH