I guess the stem plot is close to what you need. http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/stem_plot.html
Regards, -JJ On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Art<grenan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > I was thinking more like the tiny attachment (hope attachments are ok). > Basically, given a list of (x,y) coordinates, plot the (x,y) point as a > little circle and drop a line down from the point to the x-axis (but not > fill the whole region under the plot). > > It's very nice for plotting a sparse signal, where most of the y's are equal > to zero but some are not. > > Thanks, > Art. > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> >> Art wrote: >>> >>> Is there a way to create a line plot similar to Mathematica's >>> PlotFilling->Axis option for ListPlot? >>> >> >> Like this? >> >> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/fill_between_demo.html >> >> Eric >>> >>> It is a plot of a vector as a line plot, but for each point, there is a >>> vertical line dropped down to the axis. It is demonstrated on the following >>> link: >>> >>> http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/Filling.html >>> >>> With the example given: >>> >>> ListPlot[Table[{k, >>> PDF[BinomialDistribution[50, p], k]}, {p, {0.3, 0.5, 0.8}}, {k, 0, >>> 50}], Filling -> Axis] >>> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Matplotlib-users mailing list >>> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
