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A Vertical Bar Chart
This shows a Horizontal Bar Chart with a Legend, being saved as both a bitmap for the web and a PDF chart. This code was generated using Diagra (ReportLab's commercial charts package), which allows you to define charts in a GUI. However, you don't need this package to run it, and all the chart features demonstrated are available in our open source package.
# this code was generated by Diagra, ReportLab Commercial drawing editor
# It took only few clicks to generate the code.
from reportlab.lib.colors import Color, blue, red
from reportlab.graphics.charts.legends import Legend, TotalAnnotator
from reportlab.graphics.shapes import Drawing, _DrawingEditorMixin
from standard_colors import pdf_chart_colors, setItems
from reportlab.lib.validators import Auto
from reportlab.graphics.charts.barcharts import VerticalBarChart
class FactSheetHoldingsVBar(_DrawingEditorMixin,Drawing):
def __init__(self,width=400,height=200,*args,**kw):
apply(Drawing.__init__,(self,width,height)+args,kw)
self._add(self,VerticalBarChart(),name='bar',validate=None,desc=None)
self.bar.data = [[4.22], [4.12], [3.65], [3.56], [3.49], [3.44], [3.07], [2.84], [2.76], [1.09]]
self.bar.categoryAxis.categoryNames = ['Financials','Energy','Health Care','Telecoms','Consumer','Consumer 2','Industrials','Materials','Other','Liquid Assets']
self.bar.categoryAxis.labels.fillColor = None
self.bar.width = 200
self.bar.height = 150
self.bar.x = 30
self.bar.y = 15
self.bar.barSpacing = 5
self.bar.groupSpacing = 5
self.bar.valueAxis.labels.fontName = 'Helvetica'
self.bar.valueAxis.labels.fontSize = 8
self.bar.valueAxis.forceZero = 1
self.bar.valueAxis.rangeRound = 'both'
self.bar.valueAxis.valueMax = None#10#
self.bar.categoryAxis.visible = 1
self.bar.categoryAxis.visibleTicks = 0
self.bar.barLabels.fontSize = 6
self.bar.valueAxis.labels.fontSize = 6
self.bar.strokeWidth = 0.1
self.bar.bars.strokeWidth = 0.5
n = len(self.bar.data)
setItems(n,self.bar.bars,'fillColor',pdf_chart_colors)
#add and set up legend
self._add(self,Legend(),name='legend',validate=None,desc=None)
_ = ['Vodafone Group', 'UBS', 'British Petroleum', 'Royal bk of Scotland', 'HSBC Holdings', 'Total Elf Fina', 'Repsol', 'Novartis', 'BNP Paribas', 'Schneider Electric' ]
self.legend.colorNamePairs = [(Auto(chart=self.bar),(t,'%.2f'% d[0])) for t,d in zip(_,self.bar.data)]
self.legend.columnMaximum = 10
self.legend.fontName = 'Helvetica'
self.legend.fontSize = 5.5
self.legend.boxAnchor = 'w'
self.legend.x = 260
self.legend.y = self.height/2
self.legend.dx = 8
self.legend.dy = 8
self.legend.alignment = 'right'
self.legend.yGap = 0
self.legend.deltay = 11
self.legend.dividerLines = 1|2|4
self.legend.subCols.rpad = 10
self.legend.dxTextSpace = 5
self.legend.strokeWidth = 0
self.legend.dividerOffsY = 6
self.legend.colEndCallout = TotalAnnotator(rText='%.2f'%sum([x[0] for x in self.bar.data]), fontName='Helvetica-Bold', fontSize=self.legend.fontSize*1.1)
self.legend.colorNamePairs = [(self.bar.bars[i].fillColor, (self.bar.categoryAxis.categoryNames[i][0:20], '%0.2f' % self.bar.data[i][0])) for i in range(len(self.bar.data))]
if __name__=="__main__": #NORUNTESTS
drawing = FactSheetHoldingsVBar()
drawing.save(formats=['pdf'],outDir='.',fnRoot=None)
drawing.save(formats=['png'],outDir='.',fnRoot=None)