Pandas DataFrame: plot.line() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:52 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

DataFrame.plot.line() function

The plot.line() function is used to plot series or DataFrame as lines.

This function is useful to plot lines using DataFrame’s values as coordinates.

Syntax:

DataFrame.plot.line(self, x=None, y=None, **kwargs)

Parameters:

Name	Description	Type/Default Value	Required / Optional
x	Columns to use for the horizontal axis. Either the location or the label of the columns to be used. By default, it will use the DataFrame indices.	int or str	Optional
y	The values to be plotted. Either the location or the label of the columns to be used. By default, it will use the remaining DataFrame numeric columns.	int, str, or list of them	Optional
**kwds	Keyword arguments to pass on to DataFrame.plot().		Optional

Returns: matplotlib.axes.Axes or numpy.ndarray
Return an ndarray when subplots=True.

Example:

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