matplotlib-window
Draggable data windowing for matplotlib plots. Inspired by the adventures of past me and dragpy.
Interface
For most use cases, interaction with this library is done via the helper wrappers in matplotlib_window.window. These functions will accept the user data and build the plots directly for windowing.
Units
In addition to numeric data, plotted data and window position/window_width values may be of any type supported by matplotlib's unit conversion (e.g. datetime/timedelta, or NumPy's datetime64/timedelta64).
Returned window bounds are always provided in the axes' native float units; for datetime data these can be converted back to datetimes using matplotlib.dates.num2date.
fixed_window
Plot the provided data & build a draggable fixed-width window to select bounds of interest; the x-locations of the edges of the window are returned once the figure window is closed.
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
x_data |
x data values to plot | See: Note 1 | Required |
y_data |
y data values to plot | See: Note 1 | Required |
position |
x-coordinate of the left edge of the window | See: Note 1 | Required |
window_width |
Width, along the x-axis, of the draggable window | See: Note 1 | Required |
snap_to_data |
Prevent dragging of the window beyond the bounds of the plotted data | bool |
True |
axes_kwargs |
Optional kwargs to pass to the Axes setter2 |
dict[str, Any] |
{"title": ...} |
plot_kwargs |
Optional kwargs to pass to the plotting call3 | dict[str, Any] |
{} |
int|float, or any type supported by matplotlib's unit conversion, see: Units- kwargs are passed directly to the
AxesusingAxes.set(), see thematplotlib.axes.Axesdocumentation for supported arguments. - kwargs are passed directly to the plotting call, see the
matplotlib.pyplot.plotdocumentation for supported arguments.
flexible_window
Plot the provided data & build a flexible-width window to select bounds of interest; the x-locations of the edges of the window are returned once the figure window is closed.
Parameters
| Parameter | Description | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
x_data |
x data values to plot | See: Note 1 | Required |
y_data |
y data values to plot | See: Note 1 | Required |
position |
x-coordinate of the left edge of the window | See: Note 1 | Required |
window_width |
Starting width, along the x-axis, of the flexible window | See: Note 1 | Required |
snap_to_data |
Prevent dragging of the window beyond the bounds of the plotted data | bool |
True |
allow_face_drag |
Allow dragging of the window using its face | bool |
False |
axes_kwargs |
Optional kwargs to pass to the Axes setter3 |
dict[str, Any] |
{"title": ...} |
plot_kwargs |
Optional kwargs to pass to the plotting call4 | dict[str, Any] |
{} |
int|float, or any type supported by matplotlib's unit conversion, see: Units- kwargs are passed directly to the
AxesusingAxes.set(), see thematplotlib.axes.Axesdocumentation for supported arguments. - kwargs are passed directly to the plotting call, see the
matplotlib.pyplot.plotdocumentation for supported arguments.
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