``matplotlib.pyplot``

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matplotlib.pyplot

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.. currentmodule:: matplotlib.pyplot

.. automodule:: matplotlib.pyplot :no-members: :no-undoc-members:

Managing Figure and Axes

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axes cla clf close delaxes fignum_exists figure gca gcf get_figlabels get_fignums sca subplot subplot2grid subplot_mosaic subplots twinx twiny

Adding data to the plot

Basic ^^^^^

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plot errorbar scatter plot_date step loglog semilogx semilogy fill_between fill_betweenx bar barh bar_label stem eventplot pie stackplot broken_barh vlines hlines fill polar

Spans ^^^^^

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axhline axhspan axvline axvspan axline

Spectral ^^^^^^^^

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acorr angle_spectrum cohere csd magnitude_spectrum phase_spectrum psd specgram xcorr

Statistics ^^^^^^^^^^

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ecdf boxplot violinplot

Binned ^^^^^^

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hexbin hist hist2d stairs

Contours ^^^^^^^^

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clabel contour contourf

2D arrays ^^^^^^^^^

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imshow matshow pcolor pcolormesh spy figimage

Unstructured triangles ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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triplot tripcolor tricontour tricontourf

Text and annotations ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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annotate text figtext table arrow figlegend legend

Vector fields ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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barbs quiver quiverkey streamplot

Axis configuration

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autoscale axis box grid locator_params minorticks_off minorticks_on rgrids thetagrids tick_params ticklabel_format xlabel xlim xscale xticks ylabel ylim yscale yticks suptitle title

Layout

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margins subplots_adjust subplot_tool tight_layout

Colormapping

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clim colorbar gci sci get_cmap set_cmap imread imsave

Colormaps are available via the colormap registry matplotlib.colormaps. For convenience this registry is available in pyplot as

.. autodata:: colormaps :no-value:

Additionally, there are shortcut functions to set builtin colormaps; e.g. plt.viridis() is equivalent to plt.set_cmap('viridis').

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Configuration

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rc rc_context rcdefaults

Output

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draw draw_if_interactive ioff ion install_repl_displayhook isinteractive pause savefig show switch_backend uninstall_repl_displayhook

Other

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connect disconnect findobj get getp get_current_fig_manager ginput new_figure_manager set_loglevel setp waitforbuttonpress xkcd