I need guidance on how to move the green bar to the left side of the blue bar in the following bar chart

Question

The green bar is overlapping the blue bar. Can someone show me how to move the green bar to the right of the blue bar? I want the three bars to align.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
N = 9
labels = ['L', 'S', 'S', 'M', 'W', 'W', 'S', 'R', 'C']    
M = [0.76, 44.91, 28.43, 10.59, 4.06, 6.53, 0.80, 0.02, 0.25]
PO_means = [2.60, 58.19, 17.20, 7.81, 3.10, 7.45, 1.38, 0.06, 1.39]
K_means = [1.3, 48.2, 26, 9.8, 3.2, 7.1, 0.03, 1, 0.7]

x = np.arange(len(labels))  # the label locations
width = 0.30  # the width of the bars

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
rects1 = ax.bar(x - width/2, M, width, label='M S and K', color=('#b02a2a'))
rects2 = ax.bar(x + width/2, PO_means, width, label='PO S and K', color=('#055cad'))
rects3 = ax.bar(x + width/2, K_means, width, label='M K', color=('#0b7d53'))

# Add some text for labels, title and custom x-axis tick labels, etc.
ax.set_ylabel('% of workday', fontsize=32)
#ax.set_title('Scores by group and gender')
ax.set_xticks(x) 
ax.set_xticklabels(labels, fontsize=32) 
ax.legend(loc='upper right', frameon=False, fontsize=25, markerscale=2)

ax.bar_label(rects1, size = 32, padding=3) 
ax.bar_label(rects2, size = 32,  padding=3) 
ax.bar_label(rects3, size = 32,  padding=3)
plt.xticks(ha='center') 
for tick in ax.xaxis.get_major_ticks():
    tick.label.set_fontsize(32) 
for tick in ax.yaxis.get_major_ticks():
    tick.label.set_fontsize(32) 
plt.ylim(0, 100) 
plt.gca().spines['right'].set_color('none')
plt.gca().spines['top'].set_color('none')
#fig.tight_layout()

plt.show()

Please trim your code to make it easier to find your problem. Follow these guidelines to create a [minimal reproducible example](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example). — , May 12 '22 at 18:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 12 '22 at 12:13

Change these lines:

rects1 = ax.bar(x - width/2, M, width, label='M S and K', color=('#b02a2a'))
rects2 = ax.bar(x + width/2, PO_means, width, label='PO S and K', color=('#055cad'))
rects3 = ax.bar(x + width/2, K_means, width, label='M K', color=('#0b7d53'))

to:

rects1 = ax.bar(x - width, M, width, label='M S and K', color=('#b02a2a'))
rects2 = ax.bar(x, PO_means, width, label='PO S and K', color=('#055cad'))
rects3 = ax.bar(x + width, K_means, width, label='M K', color=('#0b7d53'))

I need guidance on how to move the green bar to the left side of the blue bar in the following bar chart

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