Aha! I knew it must be that simple, I just yet hadn't hit on step. Thanks, Ethan
On 08/19/2010 09:14 PM, Ryan May wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Ethan Swint<esw...@vt.edu> wrote: > >> Hi- >> >> I'm trying to plot an XY line graph with discrete XY pairs in it with a >> step response between each pair. In other words, on the range [X1,X2), >> it should have a horizontal line at Y1, at X2, the line goes vertical >> from Y1 to Y2, then on the range [X2,X3), it should have a horizontal >> line at Y2. I haven't seen any examples yet, and my forays into the >> documentation haven't yielded up a simple way to do this. Is there a >> simple option to do this, or do I have to pad my data with X1, >> X2-epsilon, X2, X3-epsilon, etc. >> > What you're looking for is the step() plotting function: > > step(x, y, *args, **kwargs) > > Make a step plot. Additional keyword args to :func:`step` are the same > as those for :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.plot`. > > *x* and *y* must be 1-D sequences, and it is assumed, but not checked, > that *x* is uniformly increasing. > > Keyword arguments: > > *where*: [ 'pre' | 'post' | 'mid' ] > If 'pre', the interval from x[i] to x[i+1] has level y[i+1] > > If 'post', that interval has level y[i] > > If 'mid', the jumps in *y* occur half-way between the > *x*-values. > > Ryan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
