[Matplotlib-users] filled step plot?

This has been asked before, and I just filed a ticket [1]. Can anyone think
of a better way to do something like this? The fill_between below is pretty
suboptimal IMO.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

t_sec = np.arange(6)
velocity = np.array([24., 33., 40., 45., 48., 49.])

fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10,6))
lines = ax.plot(t_sec, velocity, 'mo')
ax.margins(.01)
ax.grid(False)
ax.set_ylim(0, 53);
steps = ax.step(t_sec, velocity, where='post', color='black')
filed = ax.fill_between(np.linspace(0, 5, 1001), 0,
np.r_[np.repeat(velocity[:-1], 200), 5.])

Skipper

[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/1709