Matplotlib: Visualization with Python. Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible. Create publication quality plots. Make …

Matplotlib 3.10.0 documentation# Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations. Install#

Currently Matplotlib supports PyQt/PySide, PyGObject, Tkinter, and wxPython. When embedding Matplotlib in a GUI, you must use the Matplotlib API directly rather than the pylab/pyplot procedural interface, so take a look at the examples/api directory for …

Before trying to install Matplotlib, please install the Dependencies. To build from a tarball, download the latest tar.gz release file from the PyPI files page. If you are building your own Matplotlib wheels (or sdists) on Windows, note that any DLLs that you copy into the source tree will be packaged too. Configure build and behavior defaults#

matplotlib.pyplot is a collection of functions that make matplotlib work like MATLAB. Each pyplot function makes some change to a figure: e.g., creates a figure, creates a plotting area in a figure, plots some lines in a plotting area, decorates the plot with labels, etc.

Check out Plot types to get an overview of the types of plots you can create with Matplotlib. Learn Matplotlib from the ground up in the Quick-start guide.

Creating Colormaps in Matplotlib; Colormap normalization; Choosing Colormaps in Matplotlib

This page contains a few tutorials for using Matplotlib. For the old tutorials, see below. For shorter examples, see our examples page. You can also find external resources and a FAQ in our user guide.

Overview of many common plotting commands provided by Matplotlib. See the gallery for more examples and the tutorials page for longer examples.

matplotlib.pyplot is a state-based interface to matplotlib. It provides an implicit, MATLAB-like, way of plotting. It provides an implicit, MATLAB-like, way of plotting. It also opens figures on your screen, and acts as the figure GUI manager.