在matplotlib.pyplot中使用虚线标记y值

Question

I am trying to plot a graph using matplotlib.pyplot .

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = [i for i in range (1,201)]
y = np.loadtxt('final_fscore.txt', dtype=np.float128)
plt.plot(x, y, lw=2)
plt.show()

It looks something like this:

I want to mark the first value of x where y has reached the highest ( which is already known, say for x= 23, y= y[23]), like this figure shown below:

I have been searching this for some time now, with little success. I have tried adding a straight line for now, which is not behaving the desired way:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

x = [i for i in range (1,201)]
y = np.loadtxt('final_fscore.txt', dtype=np.float128)

plt.plot(x, y, lw=2)

plt.plot([23,y[23]], [23,0])

plt.show()

Resulting graph:

Note: I want to make the figure like in the second graph.

Answer 1

It's not clear what y[23] would do here. You would need to find out the maximum value and the index at which this occurs ( np.argmax ). You may then use this to plot a 3 point line with those coordinates.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np; np.random.seed(9)

x = np.arange(200)
y = np.cumsum(np.random.randn(200))
plt.plot(x, y, lw=2)

amax = np.argmax(y)
xlim,ylim = plt.xlim(), plt.ylim()
plt.plot([x[amax], x[amax], xlim[0]], [xlim[0], y[amax], y[amax]],
          linestyle="--")
plt.xlim(xlim)
plt.ylim(ylim)

plt.show()