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https://github.com/pydata/xarray/pull/5763#issuecomment-912724289,https://api.github.com/repos/pydata/xarray/issues/5763,912724289,IC_kwDOAMm_X842ZxFB,14371165,2021-09-03T18:19:02Z,2021-09-03T18:19:02Z,MEMBER,"What would you expect the plot to look like if you input a complex number or a multiindex along the x-axis?
I think I would expect it to be shown like a flattened array. And you can kind of get away with that if you cast the arrays to string before hand.
 
<details>

```python
x = 1j * np.arange(0, 5)
y = np.arange(5, 10)
plt.plot(x, y)
ComplexWarning: Casting complex values to real discards the imaginary part
  return np.asarray(x, float)
```
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/14371165/132037646-8ade69af-9201-4218-a2d2-1cb1c6954328.png)

```python
x = 1j * np.arange(0, 5)
y = np.arange(5, 10)
plt.plot(np.vectorize(str)(x), y)
```
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/14371165/132037845-cf04623e-5f36-4d65-b5b4-b2433366fe14.png)


```python
x = 1j + np.arange(0, 5)
y = np.arange(5, 10)
plt.plot(np.vectorize(str)(x), y)
```
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/14371165/132039166-720de3f9-ef16-419b-aaf6-68f9dac6c59f.png)


```python
import pandas as pd
arrays = [[1, 1, 2, 2], ['red', 'blue', 'red', 'blue']]
a = pd.MultiIndex.from_arrays(arrays, names=('number', 'color')).to_numpy()
b = np.arange(4, 8)
plt.plot(np.vectorize(str)(a), b)
```
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/14371165/132048322-fb83cdbf-9720-4ed4-b75e-52bb7a41055f.png)
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