.. DO NOT EDIT. .. THIS FILE WAS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY SPHINX-GALLERY. .. TO MAKE CHANGES, EDIT THE SOURCE PYTHON FILE: .. "examples/artist_labels.py" .. LINE NUMBERS ARE GIVEN BELOW. .. only:: html .. note:: :class: sphx-glr-download-link-note :ref:`Go to the end ` to download the full example code .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-example-title .. _sphx_glr_examples_artist_labels.py: Display an artist's label instead of x, y coordinates ===================================================== Use an event handler to change the annotation text. .. GENERATED FROM PYTHON SOURCE LINES 7-26 .. image-sg:: /examples/images/sphx_glr_artist_labels_001.png :alt: Click on a line to display its label :srcset: /examples/images/sphx_glr_artist_labels_001.png :class: sphx-glr-single-img .. code-block:: Python import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import mplcursors x = np.linspace(0, 10, 100) fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.set_title("Click on a line to display its label") # Plot a series of lines with increasing slopes. for i in range(1, 20): ax.plot(x, i * x, label=f"$y = {i}x$") # Use a Cursor to interactively display the label for a selected line. mplcursors.cursor().connect( "add", lambda sel: sel.annotation.set_text(sel.artist.get_label())) plt.show() .. _sphx_glr_download_examples_artist_labels.py: .. only:: html .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-example .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter :download:`Download Jupyter notebook: artist_labels.ipynb ` .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python :download:`Download Python source code: artist_labels.py ` .. only:: html .. rst-class:: sphx-glr-signature `Gallery generated by Sphinx-Gallery `_