.. _api-barchart_demo: api example code: barchart_demo.py ================================== .. plot:: /home/mdboom/Work/builds/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/api/barchart_demo.py :: #!/usr/bin/env python # a bar plot with errorbars import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt N = 5 menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27) menStd = (2, 3, 4, 1, 2) ind = np.arange(N) # the x locations for the groups width = 0.35 # the width of the bars fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111) rects1 = ax.bar(ind, menMeans, width, color='r', yerr=menStd) womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25) womenStd = (3, 5, 2, 3, 3) rects2 = ax.bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width, color='y', yerr=womenStd) # add some ax.set_ylabel('Scores') ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender') ax.set_xticks(ind+width) ax.set_xticklabels( ('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5') ) ax.legend( (rects1[0], rects2[0]), ('Men', 'Women') ) def autolabel(rects): # attach some text labels for rect in rects: height = rect.get_height() ax.text(rect.get_x()+rect.get_width()/2., 1.05*height, '%d'%int(height), ha='center', va='bottom') autolabel(rects1) autolabel(rects2) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)