python - Hiding lines after showing a pyplot figure -

i'm using pyplot display line graph of 30 lines. add way show , hide individual lines on graph. pyplot have menu can edit line properties change color or style, rather clunky when want hide lines isolate 1 you're interested in. ideally, i'd use checkboxes on legend show , hide lines. (similar showing , hiding layers in image editors paint.net) i'm not sure if possible pyplot, open other modules long they're easy distribute.

if you'd like, can hook callback legend show/hide lines when they're clicked. there's simple example here: http://matplotlib.org/examples/event_handling/legend_picking.html

here's "fancier" example should work without needing manually specify relationship of lines , legend markers (also has few more features).

import numpy np import matplotlib.pyplot plt  def main():     x = np.arange(10)     fig, ax = plt.subplots()     in range(1, 31):         ax.plot(x, * x, label=r'$y={}x$'.format(i))      ax.legend(loc='upper left', bbox_to_anchor=(1.05, 1),               ncol=2, borderaxespad=0)     fig.subplots_adjust(right=0.55)     fig.suptitle('right-click hide all\nmiddle-click show all',                  va='top', size='large')      interactive_legend().show()  def interactive_legend(ax=none):     if ax none:         ax = plt.gca()     if ax.legend_ none:         ax.legend()      return interactivelegend(ax.legend_)  class interactivelegend(object):     def __init__(self, legend):         self.legend = legend         self.fig = legend.axes.figure          self.lookup_artist, self.lookup_handle = self._build_lookups(legend)         self._setup_connections()          self.update()      def _setup_connections(self):         artist in self.legend.texts + self.legend.legendhandles:             artist.set_picker(10) # 10 points tolerance          self.fig.canvas.mpl_connect('pick_event', self.on_pick)         self.fig.canvas.mpl_connect('button_press_event', self.on_click)      def _build_lookups(self, legend):         labels = [t.get_text() t in legend.texts]         handles = legend.legendhandles         label2handle = dict(zip(labels, handles))         handle2text = dict(zip(handles, legend.texts))          lookup_artist = {}         lookup_handle = {}         artist in legend.axes.get_children():             if artist.get_label() in labels:                 handle = label2handle[artist.get_label()]                 lookup_handle[artist] = handle                 lookup_artist[handle] = artist                 lookup_artist[handle2text[handle]] = artist          lookup_handle.update(zip(handles, handles))         lookup_handle.update(zip(legend.texts, handles))          return lookup_artist, lookup_handle      def on_pick(self, event):         handle = event.artist         if handle in self.lookup_artist:             artist = self.lookup_artist[handle]             artist.set_visible(not artist.get_visible())             self.update()      def on_click(self, event):         if event.button == 3:             visible = false         elif event.button == 2:             visible = true         else:             return          artist in self.lookup_artist.values():             artist.set_visible(visible)         self.update()      def update(self):         artist in self.lookup_artist.values():             handle = self.lookup_handle[artist]             if artist.get_visible():                 handle.set_visible(true)             else:                 handle.set_visible(false)         self.fig.canvas.draw()      def show(self):         plt.show()  if __name__ == '__main__':     main() 

this allows click on legend items toggle corresponding artists on/off. example, can go this:

to this: