matplotlib.axes.Axes.barh

Axes.barh(y, width, height=0.8, left=None, *, align='center', **kwargs)[source]

Make a horizontal bar plot.

The bars are positioned at y with the given alignment. Their dimensions are given by width and height. The horizontal baseline is left (default 0).

Each of y, width, height, and left may either be a scalar applying to all bars, or it may be a sequence of length N providing a separate value for each bar.

Parameters:

y : scalar or array-like

The y coordinates of the bars. See also align for the alignment of the bars to the coordinates.

width : scalar or array-like

The width(s) of the bars.

height : sequence of scalars, optional, default: 0.8

The heights of the bars.

left : sequence of scalars

The x coordinates of the left sides of the bars (default: 0).

align : {'center', 'edge'}, optional, default: 'center'

Alignment of the base to the y coordinates*:

  • 'center': Center the bars on the y positions.
  • 'edge': Align the bottom edges of the bars with the y positions.

To align the bars on the top edge pass a negative height and align='edge'.
Returns:

container : BarContainer

Container with all the bars and optionally errorbars.
Other Parameters:

color : scalar or array-like, optional

The colors of the bar faces.

edgecolor : scalar or array-like, optional

The colors of the bar edges.

linewidth : scalar or array-like, optional

Width of the bar edge(s). If 0, don't draw edges.

tick_label : str or array-like, optional

The tick labels of the bars. Default: None (Use default numeric labels.)

xerr, yerr : scalar or array-like of shape(N,) or shape(2, N), optional

If not None, add horizontal / vertical errorbars to the bar tips. The values are +/- sizes relative to the data:

  • scalar: symmetric +/- values for all bars
  • shape(N,): symmetric +/- values for each bar
  • shape(2, N): Separate - and + values for each bar. First row contains the lower errors, the second row contains the upper errors.
  • None: No errorbar. (default)

See Different ways of specifying error bars for an example on the usage of xerr and yerr.

ecolor : scalar or array-like, optional, default: 'black'

The line color of the errorbars.

capsize : scalar, optional

The length of the error bar caps in points. Default: None, which will take the value from rcParams["errorbar.capsize"] (default: 0.0).

error_kw : dict, optional

Dictionary of kwargs to be passed to the errorbar method. Values of ecolor or capsize defined here take precedence over the independent kwargs.

log : bool, optional, default: False

If True, set the x-axis to be log scale.

See also

bar
Plot a vertical bar plot.

Notes

The optional arguments color, edgecolor, linewidth, xerr, and yerr can be either scalars or sequences of length equal to the number of bars. This enables you to use bar as the basis for stacked bar charts, or candlestick plots. Detail: xerr and yerr are passed directly to errorbar(), so they can also have shape 2xN for independent specification of lower and upper errors.

Other optional kwargs:

Property Description
agg_filter a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha float or None
animated bool
antialiased or aa unknown
capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clip_box Bbox
clip_on bool
clip_path Patch or (Path, Transform) or None
color color
contains callable
edgecolor or ec color or None or 'auto'
facecolor or fc color or None
figure Figure
fill bool
gid str
hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout bool
joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label object
linestyle or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth or lw float or None
path_effects AbstractPathEffect
picker None or bool or float or callable
rasterized bool or None
sketch_params (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap bool or None
transform Transform
url str
visible bool
zorder float

Examples using matplotlib.axes.Axes.barh