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Aquiles Páez
Aquiles Páez

Reputation: 573

Python 2.7: can I make Matplotlib display values like Plotly?

I want to know if there are ways to display the correspondent marker (or line) values when we place the mouse cursor on such elements of a figure without clicking them, in a similar way plotly does it (some examples using scatter plots here).

What I've achieved on my own is some basic interactive plotting (adding markers to a line after clicking an element of my plot, etc). I saw this very useful package (mpldatacursor) for some of my purposes, but still is not what I'm looking for.

As you see in this example, I can choose coordinates of a line and show them but that only happens when I click such points. And I will like them to be shown without being clicked, like the plotly example.

This example is also taken from pypi.python.org/pypi/mpldatacursor

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from mpldatacursor import datacursor

data = np.outer(range(10), range(1, 5))

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
lines = ax.plot(data)
ax.set_title('Click somewhere on a line')

datacursor(lines)

plt.show()

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I'd be pleased to hear any suggestions you may have, take care!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 845

Answers (1)

Lucas
Lucas

Reputation: 7341

No, the purpose of matplotlib is not to make interactive graphics. I'm not saying it's impossible, but there are libraries for that.

Possibly useful to you bokeh

From your page:

Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library that targets modern web browsers for presentation.

Upvotes: 2

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