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How to make a Matplotlib and PyQt5 based GUI

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Hello friends, here is the code for the simple matplotlib GUI. Save it as main.py and run it to load the csv files. Enjoy, and do give back your feedback and suggestions. Also please make sure, you are using Matplotlib version 3.2.1 or above. For more detail visit pyshine youtube channel.



main.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
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# Form implementation generated from reading ui file 'main.ui'
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# Created by: PyQt5 UI code generator 5.11.3
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# WARNING! All changes made in this file will be lost!
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from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtGui, QtWidgets
import matplotlib
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
matplotlib.use('Qt5Agg')
from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
from PyQt5.QtWidgets import QFileDialog
from matplotlib.backends.backend_qt5agg import FigureCanvasQTAgg, NavigationToolbar2QT as Navi
from matplotlib.figure import Figure
import seaborn as sns
import pandas as pd
import sip # can be installed : pip install sip

# We require a canvas class
import platform

# Use NSURL as a workaround to pyside/Qt4 behaviour for dragging and dropping on OSx
op_sys = platform.system()
if op_sys == 'Darwin':
    from Foundation import NSURL

class MatplotlibCanvas(FigureCanvasQTAgg):
	def __init__(self,parent=None, dpi = 120):
		fig = Figure(dpi = dpi)
		self.axes = fig.add_subplot(111)
		super(MatplotlibCanvas,self).__init__(fig)
		fig.tight_layout()
		
		

class Ui_MainWindow(object):
	def setupUi(self, MainWindow):
		MainWindow.setObjectName("MainWindow")
		MainWindow.resize(1440, 1000)
		self.centralwidget = QtWidgets.QWidget(MainWindow)
		self.centralwidget.setObjectName("centralwidget")
		self.gridLayout = QtWidgets.QGridLayout(self.centralwidget)
		self.gridLayout.setObjectName("gridLayout")
		self.horizontalLayout = QtWidgets.QHBoxLayout()
		self.horizontalLayout.setObjectName("horizontalLayout")
		self.label = QtWidgets.QLabel(self.centralwidget)
		self.label.setObjectName("label")
		self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.label)
		self.comboBox = QtWidgets.QComboBox(self.centralwidget)
		self.comboBox.setObjectName("comboBox")
		self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.comboBox)
		self.pushButton = QtWidgets.QPushButton(self.centralwidget)
		self.pushButton.setObjectName("pushButton")
		self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.pushButton)
		spacerItem = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(40, 20, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum)
		self.horizontalLayout.addItem(spacerItem)
		self.gridLayout.addLayout(self.horizontalLayout, 0, 0, 1, 1)
		self.verticalLayout = QtWidgets.QVBoxLayout()
		self.verticalLayout.setObjectName("verticalLayout")
		self.spacerItem1 = QtWidgets.QSpacerItem(20, 40, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Minimum, QtWidgets.QSizePolicy.Expanding)
		self.verticalLayout.addItem(self.spacerItem1)
		self.gridLayout.addLayout(self.verticalLayout, 1, 0, 1, 1)
		
		MainWindow.setCentralWidget(self.centralwidget)
		self.menubar = QtWidgets.QMenuBar(MainWindow)
		self.menubar.setGeometry(QtCore.QRect(0, 0, 800, 22))
		self.menubar.setObjectName("menubar")
		self.menuFile = QtWidgets.QMenu(self.menubar)
		self.menuFile.setObjectName("menuFile")
		MainWindow.setMenuBar(self.menubar)
		self.statusbar = QtWidgets.QStatusBar(MainWindow)
		self.statusbar.setObjectName("statusbar")
		MainWindow.setStatusBar(self.statusbar)
		self.actionOpen_csv_file = QtWidgets.QAction(MainWindow)
		self.actionOpen_csv_file.setObjectName("actionOpen_csv_file")
		self.actionExit = QtWidgets.QAction(MainWindow)
		self.actionExit.setObjectName("actionExit")
		self.menuFile.addAction(self.actionOpen_csv_file)
		self.menuFile.addAction(self.actionExit)
		self.menubar.addAction(self.menuFile.menuAction())

		self.retranslateUi(MainWindow)
		QtCore.QMetaObject.connectSlotsByName(MainWindow)
		
		self.filename = ''
		self.canv = MatplotlibCanvas(self)
		self.df = []
		
		self.toolbar = Navi(self.canv,self.centralwidget)
		self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.toolbar)
		
		self.themes = ['bmh', 'classic', 'dark_background', 'fast', 
		'fivethirtyeight', 'ggplot', 'grayscale', 'seaborn-bright',
		 'seaborn-colorblind', 'seaborn-dark-palette', 'seaborn-dark', 
		 'seaborn-darkgrid', 'seaborn-deep', 'seaborn-muted', 'seaborn-notebook',
		 'seaborn-paper', 'seaborn-pastel', 'seaborn-poster', 'seaborn-talk',
		 'seaborn-ticks', 'seaborn-white', 'seaborn-whitegrid', 'seaborn',
		 'Solarize_Light2', 'tableau-colorblind10']
		 
		self.comboBox.addItems(self.themes)
		
		self.pushButton.clicked.connect(self.getFile)
		self.comboBox.currentIndexChanged['QString'].connect(self.Update)
		self.actionExit.triggered.connect(MainWindow.close)
		self.actionOpen_csv_file.triggered.connect(self.getFile)
		
	def Update(self,value):
		print("Value from Combo Box:",value)
		plt.clf()
		plt.style.use(value)
		try:
			self.horizontalLayout.removeWidget(self.toolbar)
			self.verticalLayout.removeWidget(self.canv)
			
			sip.delete(self.toolbar)
			sip.delete(self.canv)
			self.toolbar = None
			self.canv = None
			self.verticalLayout.removeItem(self.spacerItem1)
		except Exception as e:
			print(e)
			pass
		self.canv = MatplotlibCanvas(self)
		self.toolbar = Navi(self.canv,self.centralwidget)
		
		self.horizontalLayout.addWidget(self.toolbar)
		self.verticalLayout.addWidget(self.canv)
		
		self.canv.axes.cla()
		ax = self.canv.axes
		self.df.plot(ax = self.canv.axes)
		legend = ax.legend()
		legend.set_draggable(True)
		
		ax.set_xlabel('X axis')
		ax.set_ylabel('Y axis')
		ax.set_title(self.Title)
		
		self.canv.draw()
		
		
		
		
	
	def getFile(self):
		""" This function will get the address of the csv file location
			also calls a readData function 
		"""
		self.filename = QFileDialog.getOpenFileName(filter = "csv (*.csv)")[0]
		print("File :", self.filename)
		self.readData()
	
	def readData(self):
		""" This function will read the data using pandas and call the update
			function to plot
		"""
		import os
		base_name = os.path.basename(self.filename)
		self.Title = os.path.splitext(base_name)[0]
		print('FILE',self.Title )
		self.df = pd.read_csv(self.filename,encoding = 'utf-8').fillna(0)
		self.Update(self.themes[0]) # lets 0th theme be the default : bmh
	

	
	def retranslateUi(self, MainWindow):
		_translate = QtCore.QCoreApplication.translate
		MainWindow.setWindowTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "PyShine simple plot"))
		self.label.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Select Theme"))
		self.pushButton.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Open"))
		self.menuFile.setTitle(_translate("MainWindow", "File"))
		self.actionOpen_csv_file.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Open csv file"))
		self.actionExit.setText(_translate("MainWindow", "Exit"))

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if __name__ == "__main__":
	import sys
	app = QtWidgets.QApplication(sys.argv)
	MainWindow = QtWidgets.QMainWindow()
	ui = Ui_MainWindow()
	ui.setupUi(MainWindow)
	
	MainWindow.show()
	sys.exit(app.exec_())


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