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user1956609
user1956609

Reputation: 2202

Inserting hyperlinks in pyplot interactive mode

I am creating a visualization of Twitter user locations as tweets come in, and so within my matplotlib code I have these three lines to create an interactive plot so the location markers can be plotted in realtime:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.ion()
plt.show()

What I'd like to do is add links to the original Tweet page within each marker. So if you hover over a newly-added marker, you can click it and it opens up a browser and shows you the tweet.

I'm hoping there's a way to add hyperlinks that are clickable in real-time, but I'm okay with saving the visualization to an .svg and then seeing the links appear in a static file within my browser. I see this example page on how to do it, but it includes a plt.figure() statement which I don't have in my code. How can I still produce the .svg with hyperlinks while running in interactive mode?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 511

Answers (1)

pateryan
pateryan

Reputation: 44

A possible solution you could try is by using the matplotlib.use('SVG') before you use savefig.

Straight from the FAQ (http://matplotlib.org/faq/howto_faq.html) You have:

import matplotlib
matplotlib.use('Agg')
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.savefig('myfig')

Replace Agg with SVG and hopefully that will work for you.

Upvotes: 1

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