draw horizontal bars on the same line
<p>I have to draw a gantt resource type of chart.
Idea is to draw several horizontal bars on the same line (corresponding to a resource) each length represented by start date and and date</p>

<p>this is the expected result:
<a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aqj97.png" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/aqj97.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>

<p>Altogether we have around 200 resources and max. 50 task for each to display, so performance is important.</p>

<p>Any idea?</p>

<p>In addition the tasks should be draggable by mouse.
An solution (Fat GUI (pyQt, wxwidget, tkinter, ...) or web based Flask, web2py, etc) is OK</p>

<p>Actually, I'm gonna cheat and post you something straight from the <a href="http://matplotlib.org/users/event_handling.html#draggable-rectangle-exercise" rel="nofollow">Matplotlib Documentation</a>. This should get you started with draggable objects in mpl. you'll have to come up with your own dynamic object creation code...</p>

<p>full credit to the guys over at mpl:</p>

<pre><code># draggable rectangle with the animation blit techniques; see
# http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

class DraggableRectangle:
    lock = None  # only one can be animated at a time
    def __init__(self, rect):
        self.rect = rect
        self.press = None
        self.background = None

    def connect(self):
        'connect to all the events we need'
        self.cidpress = self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_connect(
            'button_press_event', self.on_press)
        self.cidrelease = self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_connect(
            'button_release_event', self.on_release)
        self.cidmotion = self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_connect(
            'motion_notify_event', self.on_motion)

    def on_press(self, event):
        'on button press we will see if the mouse is over us and store some data'
        if event.inaxes != self.rect.axes: return
        if DraggableRectangle.lock is not None: return
        contains, attrd = self.rect.contains(event)
        if not contains: return
        print('event contains', self.rect.xy)
        x0, y0 = self.rect.xy
        self.press = x0, y0, event.xdata, event.ydata
        DraggableRectangle.lock = self

        # draw everything but the selected rectangle and store the pixel buffer
        canvas = self.rect.figure.canvas
        axes = self.rect.axes
        self.rect.set_animated(True)
        canvas.draw()
        self.background = canvas.copy_from_bbox(self.rect.axes.bbox)

        # now redraw just the rectangle
        axes.draw_artist(self.rect)

        # and blit just the redrawn area
        canvas.blit(axes.bbox)

    def on_motion(self, event):
        'on motion we will move the rect if the mouse is over us'
        if DraggableRectangle.lock is not self:
            return
        if event.inaxes != self.rect.axes: return
        x0, y0, xpress, ypress = self.press
        dx = event.xdata - xpress
        dy = event.ydata - ypress
        self.rect.set_x(x0+dx)
        self.rect.set_y(y0+dy)

        canvas = self.rect.figure.canvas
        axes = self.rect.axes
        # restore the background region
        canvas.restore_region(self.background)

        # redraw just the current rectangle
        axes.draw_artist(self.rect)

        # blit just the redrawn area
        canvas.blit(axes.bbox)

    def on_release(self, event):
        'on release we reset the press data'
        if DraggableRectangle.lock is not self:
            return

        self.press = None
        DraggableRectangle.lock = None

        # turn off the rect animation property and reset the background
        self.rect.set_animated(False)
        self.background = None

        # redraw the full figure
        self.rect.figure.canvas.draw()

    def disconnect(self):
        'disconnect all the stored connection ids'
        self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_disconnect(self.cidpress)
        self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_disconnect(self.cidrelease)
        self.rect.figure.canvas.mpl_disconnect(self.cidmotion)

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
rects = ax.bar(range(10), 20*np.random.rand(10))
drs = []
for rect in rects:
    dr = DraggableRectangle(rect)
    dr.connect()
    drs.append(dr)

plt.show()
</code></pre>

python bar-chart