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Drawing a bar chart in Matplotlib

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Python

Matplotlib

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Graphs Cookbook

Jul 1, 2022

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Pyplot interface

To draw a simple bar chart of favorite colors of some students, use the plt.bar(~) method:


        
        
            
                
                
                    plt.bar(["Blue", "Red"], [2,5])
plt.show()

This produces the below output:

Object-oriented interface

To draw a simple bar chart of favorite colors of some students, use the ax.bar(~) method:


        
        
            
                
                
                    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.bar(["Blue", "Red"], [2,5])
plt.show()

This produces the below output:

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