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mplcursors provides interactive data selection cursors for Matplotlib_. It is inspired from mpldatacursor_, with a much simplified API.
mplcursors requires Matplotlib_\≥3.1.
Read the documentation on readthedocs.org_.
As usual, install using pip:
.. code-block:: sh
$ pip install mplcursors # from PyPI $ pip install git+https://github.com/anntzer/mplcursors # from Github
or your favorite package manager.
Run tests with pytest_.
.. _Matplotlib: https://matplotlib.org .. _mpldatacursor: https://github.com/joferkington/mpldatacursor .. _pytest: https://pytest.org .. _readthedocs.org: https://mplcursors.readthedocs.org
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Interactive data selection cursors for Matplotlib.
We found that mplcursors demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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