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    **How to use Matplotlib?**
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        User guide <users/index.rst>
        tutorials/index.rst
        users/faq.rst

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    **What can Matplotlib do?**
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        gallery/index.rst


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    **Reference**
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                API reference <api/index>
                Figure methods <api/figure_api>
                Plotting methods <api/axes_api>


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            Top-level interfaces to create:

            - figures: `.pyplot.figure`
            - subplots: `.pyplot.subplots`, `.pyplot.subplot_mosaic`

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    :octicon:`link-external;1em;sd-text-info` `Third-party packages <https://matplotlib.org/mpl-third-party/>`_,

    provide custom, domain specific, and experimental features, including
    styles, colors, more plot types and backends, and alternative
    interfaces.

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   Learn about new features and API changes.

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    Matplotlib is a community project maintained for and by its users. See
    :ref:`developers-guide-index` for the many ways you can help!

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    Matplotlib was created by neurobiologist John Hunter to work with EEG
    data. It grew to be used and developed by many people in many
    different fields. John's goal was that Matplotlib make easy things easy
    and hard things possible.

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        project/index.rst