Re: [Matplotlib-users] Newbie: How to control space between sets of bars in bar chart

[Paul I. <piv...@gm...>]

Christopher Brewster, on 2011-01-13 00:27,  wrote:
> I have a bar chart with three sets of figures and I would like
> some space between the three sets. I cannot seem to find
> anything in the manual or online which explains how to separate
> sets of data.  I tried adding a blank (white bar) with 0 data
> and that did not work. When I made the data non zero I got
> overlapping bars. Basically I want the US/EU/Japan data
> slightly set apart. This is the default if I use a speadsheet
> package.

Hi Christopher,

Given the width for each bar that you've chosen and how you're
offsetting each year, there's just not room left between the
indexes that you're using. Just change your ind assignment line
to this:
 
 ind = np.arange(0, 2*N, 2) 

this spaces your indexes out more.

hope that helps,
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