axes.Axes.step
matplotlib.axes.Axes.step
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Axes.step(x, y, *args, **kwargs)
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Make a step plot.
Parameters: x : array_like
1-D sequence, and it is assumed, but not checked, that it is uniformly increasing.
y : array_like
1-D sequence, and it is assumed, but not checked, that it is uniformly increasing.
Returns: list
List of lines that were added.
Other Parameters: where : [ ‘pre’ | ‘post’ | ‘mid’ ]
If ‘pre’ (the default), 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.
Notes
Additional parameters are the same as those for
plot()
.Note
In addition to the above described arguments, this function can take a data keyword argument. If such a data argument is given, the following arguments are replaced by data[<arg>]:
- All arguments with the following names: ‘x’, ‘y’.
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