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 …

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 …

Please also see Quick start guide for an overview of how Matplotlib works and Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) for an explanation of the trade-offs between the supported user …

If you would like to contribute to Matplotlib or otherwise need to install the latest development code, please follow the instructions in Setting up Matplotlib for development.

(Source code, 2x.png, png) If a plot does not show up please check Troubleshooting. Where to go next # Check out Plot types to get an overview of the types of plots you can create with …

Matplotlib's documentation and examples use both the OO and the pyplot styles. In general, we suggest using the OO style, particularly for complicated plots, and functions and scripts that …

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

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 …

If the color is the only part of the format string, you can additionally use any matplotlib.colors spec, e.g. full names ('green') or hex strings ('#008000'). Examples using matplotlib.pyplot.plot #

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