Unfilled bar plot in matplotlib

Question

With histograms, there's a simple built-in option histtype='step'. How do I make a bar plot in the same style?

Answer 1

[adding answer after reading the comments] Set the optional keyword to be fill=False for bar plots:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.bar(bins[:5], counts[:5], fill=False, width=60)  # <- this is the line

plt.title("Number of nodes with output at timestep")
plt.xlabel("Node count")
plt.ylabel("Timestep (s)")

will give:

Or use plt.plot with the keyword ls='steps' :

plt.plot(bins[-100:], counts[-100:], ls='steps')
plt.title("Number of nodes with output at timestep")
plt.xlabel("Node count")
plt.ylabel("Timestep (s)")