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Matplotlib interfaces#

Matplotlib has two interfaces. See Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) for a more detailed description of both and their recommended use cases.

Axes interface (object-based, explicit)

create a Figure and one or more Axes objects, then explicitly use methods on these objects to add data, configure limits, set labels etc.

API:

  • subplots: create Figure and Axes

  • axes: add data, limits, labels etc.

  • Figure: for figure-level methods

Example:

fig, ax = plt.subplots() ax.plot(x, y) ax.set_title("Sample plot") plt.show()

pyplot interface (function-based, implicit)

consists of functions in the pyplot module. Figure and Axes are manipulated through these functions and are only implicitly present in the background.

API:

Example:

plt.plot(x, y) plt.title("Sample plot") plt.show()

Modules#

Alphabetical list of modules:

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