[FIXED] How do I specify the use of repeated labels in matplotlib?

Issue

Below I have an example of a simple horizontal bar chart made in Python 3 with Matplotlib:

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

labels = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Dog', 'Mouse']
amounts = [5, 10, 12, 30]

plt.barh(labels, amounts)
plt.show()

Which produces the following graph:

As you can see, the default behavior is that the first "Dog" label and value gets ignored. However, I would like for two separate "Dog" points to be graphed, one at 5 and one at 12. How would I go about accomplishing this?

Solution

First plot by unique ticks and then rename

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

labels = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Dog', 'Mouse']
ticks = range(len(labels))
amounts = [5, 10, 12, 30]

fig = plt.barh(ticks, amounts)
plt.yticks(ticks, labels)
plt.show()

Answered By - user_na