mplcursors examples

As mplcursors is fundamentally a library for interactivity, you should download the examples and try them yourself :-)

mplcursors’ core functionality

Annotate on hover

Changing properties of the popup

Contour plots

Cursors on images

Datetime data

Display a bar’s height and name on top of it upon hovering

Display an artist’s label instead of x, y coordinates

Displaying a custom label for each individual point

Extracting data and labels from a DataFrame

Highlighting the artist upon selection

Keyboard shortcuts

Linked artists

Scatter plots are highlighted point-by-point.

Step plots

Using multiple annotations and disabling draggability via signals