""" =========== Broken Barh =========== Make a "broken" horizontal bar plot, i.e., one with gaps """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.broken_barh([(110, 30), (150, 10)], (10, 9), facecolors='tab:blue') ax.broken_barh([(10, 50), (100, 20), (130, 10)], (20, 9), facecolors=('tab:orange', 'tab:green', 'tab:red')) ax.set_ylim(5, 35) ax.set_xlim(0, 200) ax.set_xlabel('seconds since start') ax.set_yticks([15, 25]) ax.set_yticklabels(['Bill', 'Jim']) ax.grid(True) ax.annotate('race interrupted', (61, 25), xytext=(0.8, 0.9), textcoords='axes fraction', arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05), fontsize=16, horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top') plt.show()