"""

Make a "broken" horizontal bar plot, i.e., one with gaps

"""

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()

ax.broken_barh([(110, 30), (150, 10)], (10, 9), facecolors='blue')

ax.broken_barh([(10, 50), (100, 20), (130, 10)], (20, 9),

facecolors=('red', 'yellow', 'green'))

ax.set_ylim(5, 35)

ax.set_xlim(0, 200)

ax.set_xlabel('seconds since start')

ax.set_yticks([15, 25])

ax.set_yticklabels(['Bill', 'Jim'])

ax.grid(True)

ax.annotate('race interrupted', (61, 25),

xytext=(0.8, 0.9), textcoords='axes fraction',

arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05),

fontsize=16,

horizontalalignment='right', verticalalignment='top')

plt.show()