Plot a horizontal line using matplotlib

Question

I have used spline interpolation to smooth a time series and would also like to add a horizontal line to the plot. But there seems to be an issue that is out of my grips. An

Answer 1

If you want to draw a horizontal line in the axes, you might also try ax.hlines() method. You need to specify y position and xmin and xmax in the data coordinate (i.e, your actual data range in the x-axis). A sample code snippet is:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = np.linspace(1, 21, 200)
y = np.exp(-x)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot(x, y)
ax.hlines(y=0.2, xmin=4, xmax=20, linewidth=2, color='r')

plt.show()

The snippet above will plot a horizontal line in the axes at y=0.2. The horizontal line starts at x=4 and ends at x=20. The generated image is: