.. _tutorials:

Tutorials

This page contains a few tutorials for using Matplotlib. For the old tutorials, see :ref:below <user_guide_tutorials>.

For shorter examples, see our :ref:examples page <examples-index>. You can also find :ref:external resources <resources-index> and a :ref:FAQ <howto-faq> in our :ref:user guide <users-guide-index>.

.. minigallery:: ../galleries/tutorials/pyplot.py ../galleries/tutorials/coding_shortcuts.py ../galleries/tutorials/images.py ../galleries/tutorials/lifecycle.py ../galleries/tutorials/artists.py

.. toctree:: :hidden:

/tutorials/pyplot /tutorials/coding_shortcuts /tutorials/images /tutorials/lifecycle /tutorials/artists

.. only:: html

.. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-gallery

.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

  :download:`Download all examples in Python source code: tutorials_python.zip </tutorials/tutorials_python.zip>`

.. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

  :download:`Download all examples in Jupyter notebooks: tutorials_jupyter.zip </tutorials/tutorials_jupyter.zip>`

.. _user_guide_tutorials:

User guide tutorials

Many of our tutorials were moved from this section to :ref:users-guide-index:

Introductory ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• :ref:quick_start
• :ref:customizing
• :ref:animations

Intermediate ^^^^^^^^^^^^

• :ref:legend_guide
• :ref:color_cycle
• :ref:constrainedlayout_guide
• :ref:tight_layout_guide
• :ref:arranging_axes
• :ref:autoscale
• :ref:imshow_extent

Advanced ^^^^^^^^

• :ref:blitting
• :ref:paths
• :ref:patheffects_guide
• :ref:transforms_tutorial

Colors ^^^^^^

See :ref:tutorials-colors.

Text ^^^^

See :ref:tutorials-text.

Toolkits ^^^^^^^^

See :ref:tutorials-toolkits.