How to change the marker symbol of errorbar limits in matplotlib?

Question

just a quick question, where I couldn't find anything helpful in the plt.errorbar documentation

I want to plot values with error bars:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.errorbar(1, 0.25, yerr=0.1, uplims=True, lolims=True, fmt='o')
plt.show()

But I would like to have error bars with a simple horizontal line instead of arrows at the ends. But there is no "capmarker" or similar option in the plt.errorbar() function

Induplicate

Answer 1

Remove the uplims=True and lolims=True; both limits are plotted by default, without any ending arrows:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.errorbar(1, 0.25, yerr=0.1, fmt='o')
plt.show()

EDIT:

Increase the capsize to add caps to the end of the error bars, and increase the capthick to make the caps thicker:

plt.errorbar(1, 0.25, yerr=0.1, fmt='o', capsize=3)

plt.errorbar(1, 0.25, yerr=0.1, fmt='o', capsize=3, capthick=3)

Geostatics

Thank you for your quick answer! Sorry my description was misleading. I want to have horizontal lines at the end of the colorbars instead of arrows. – Induplicate

Great answer! Thanks @BigBen, this should be better explained/showcased in the documentation – Lawry