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categorical axis sorts its keys #9312
Description
Bug report
Bug summary
Categorical (i.e. string) xdata inputs get sorted before plotting.
Code for reproduction
plt.bar(["b", "a", "c"], [2, 1, 3])Actual outcome
Bars appear in the order "a", "b", "c".
Expected outcome
Bars appear in the order of the input, so "b", "a", "c".
Matplotlib version
- Operating system: Arch Linux
- Matplotlib version: 2.1
- Matplotlib backend (
print(matplotlib.get_backend())): qt5agg - Python version: 3.6
- Jupyter version (if applicable):
- Other libraries:
Activity
story645 commentedon Feb 12, 2018
closed by #9783 though the jpl implementation of strconvertor has me thinking we should support sorted and unsorted by stashing the info in the plot kwarg arg and as an attribute on unitdata.
Stop weekday plot being sorted alphabetically