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<p>See <a class="reference internal" href="../../api/_as_gen/matplotlib.axes.Axes.stem.html#matplotlib.axes.Axes.stem" title="matplotlib.axes.Axes.stem"><code class="xref py py-obj docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">stem</span></code></a>.</p>
<img src="../../_images/sphx_glr_stem_001.png" srcset="../../_images/sphx_glr_stem_001.png, ../../_images/sphx_glr_stem_001_2_00x.png 2.00x" alt="stem" class = "sphx-glr-single-img"/><div class="highlight-Python notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">matplotlib.pyplot</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="k">as</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nn">plt</span>
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<a href="https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.ndarray.html#numpy.ndarray" title="numpy.ndarray" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-numpy sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance"><span class="n">x</span></a> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mf">0.5</span> <span class="o">+</span> <a href="https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.arange.html#numpy.arange" title="numpy.arange" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-numpy sphx-glr-backref-type-py-function"><span class="n">np</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">arange</span></a><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">)</span>
<a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#list" title="builtins.list" class="sphx-glr-backref-module-builtins sphx-glr-backref-type-py-class sphx-glr-backref-instance"><span class="n">y</span></a> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mf">4.8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">5.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">3.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">4.6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">6.5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">6.6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">2.6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mf">3.0</span><span class="p">]</span>
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