matplotlib — interactively select points or locations?

Question

In R, there is a function locator which is like Matlab\'s ginput where you can click on the figure with a mouse and select any x,y coordinate. In a

Answer 1

from __future__ import print_function
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.lines import Line2D
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
from matplotlib.text import Text
from matplotlib.image import AxesImage
import numpy as np
from numpy.random import rand

if 1:
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.set_title('click on points', picker=True)
    ax.set_ylabel('ylabel', picker=True, bbox=dict(facecolor='red'))
    line, = ax.plot(rand(100), 'o', picker=5)

    def onpick1(event):
        if isinstance(event.artist, Line2D):
            thisline = event.artist
            xdata = thisline.get_xdata()
            ydata = thisline.get_ydata()
            ind = event.ind
            print 'X='+str(np.take(xdata, ind)[0]) # Print X point
            print 'Y='+str(np.take(ydata, ind)[0]) # Print Y point

    fig.canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event', onpick1)