simple bar plot in matplotlib code example

Example 1: how to plotting bar on matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 

data = [5., 25., 50., 20.]
plt.bar(range(len(data)),data)
plt.show()

// to set the thickness of a bar, we can set 'width'
// plt.bar(range(len(data)), data, width = 1.)

Example 2: bar plot matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_axes([0,0,1,1])
langs = ['C', 'C++', 'Java', 'Python', 'PHP']
students = [23,17,35,29,12]
ax.bar(langs,students)
plt.show()