In an old standalone plotting package (sm) there was a style available for scatter plots which I found more appealing to the general style. It appears as each point looking almost like a histogram which stretches to the next point.
An example of a scatter plot using this style: 
Matplotlib does have this style for histograms, but I'm wondering if there's a way to cheat the system to allow the style to work for scatter plots.
I think some of the confusion comes from the fact that the desired plot is not a scatter plot. It's a line plot with lines in form of a step-like function.
You may plot step functions with pyplot.step(x,y) or plot(x,y, drawstyle="steps").
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np; np.random.seed(42) x = np.linspace(0,1) y = np.random.rand(len(x)) fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.step(x,y) # or # ax.plot(x,y, drawstyle="steps") plt.show() 
