#!/usr/bin/env python # make a horizontal bar chart from pylab import * val = 3+10*rand(5) # the bar lengths pos = arange(5)+.5 # the bar centers on the y axis figure(1) barh(pos,val, align='center') yticks(pos, ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Slim', 'Jim')) xlabel('Performance') title('How fast do you want to go today?') grid(True) figure(2) barh(pos,val, xerr=rand(5), ecolor='r', align='center') yticks(pos, ('Tom', 'Dick', 'Harry', 'Slim', 'Jim')) xlabel('Performance') show()