Re: [Matplotlib-users] making a bar chart with time on xaxis

[Alan G I. <ala...@gm...>]

On 5/27/2011 12:28 PM, Amy Zhang wrote:
> I've created the following chart using matplotlib.pyplot.plot(). However, I would like to see the data points as bars from the bottom of the graph up to the points

Matplotlib supports stem plots:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.stem
(Oddly, the only example of this seems to be a link to a Matlab plot...?
But anyway, Matplotlib works great for this.)
But if you really want, you can use vlines:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/vline_demo.html

hth,
Alan Isaac