Selection area is not showing up in Tkinter

Question

I am developing an application which lets user Zoom a part of the graph based on their selection. I am able to get the initial x, y coordinates(x0, y0) and also

Answer 1

You need to update these as the event changes:

def on_motion(self, event):
    if self.is_pressed is True:
        self.x1 = event.xdata
        self.y1 = event.ydata
        self.rect.set_width(1)
        self.rect.set_height(1)
        self.rect.set_xy((2.5, 5))
        self.rect.set_linestyle('dashed')
        self.ax.figure.canvas.draw()

def on_release(self, event):
    print 'release'
    self.is_pressed = False
    self.x1 = event.xdata
    self.y1 = event.ydata
    self.rect.set_width(1)
    self.rect.set_height(1)
    self.rect.set_xy((2.5, 5))
    self.rect.set_linestyle('solid')
    self.ax.figure.canvas.draw()

As is they will continually draw a fixed size rectangle at the coordinates (2.5, 5) with a width and height of 1.

Similar to the question you were looking at something like this works.

    def on_press(self, event):
        print('press')
        self.is_pressed = True
        self.x0 = event.xdata
        self.y0 = event.ydata

    def on_motion(self, event):
        self.x1, self.y1 = event.xdata, event.ydata
        if (self.is_pressed is True and
                self.x1 is not None and
                self.y1 is not None):
            self.rect.set_width(self.x1 - self.x0)
            self.rect.set_height(self.y1 - self.y0)
            self.rect.set_xy((self.x0, self.y0))
            self.rect.set_linestyle('dashed')
            self.ax.figure.canvas.draw()

    def on_release(self, event):
        print('release')
        self.is_pressed = False
        self.x1, self.y1 = event.xdata, event.ydata
        try:
            self.rect.set_width(self.x1 - self.x0)
            self.rect.set_height(self.y1 - self.y0)
            self.rect.set_xy((self.x0, self.y0))
        except TypeError:
            if (self.x1 is None or self.y1 is None):
                return
            else:
                raise
        self.rect.set_linestyle('solid')
        self.ax.figure.canvas.draw()

Notice that the rectangle dimensions are taken from the event. I added the guard to prevent mishaps where the event does not properly interpret the coordinate.

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@furas makes a good points in the comments, it is a good idea to initialize your coordinates to floats.

    self.x0 = 0.0
    self.y0 = 0.0
    self.x1 = 0.0
    self.y1 = 0.0