Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python. Matplotlib makes easy things easy and hard things possible.

Matplotlib 3.10.8 documentation # Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations. Install #

Examples # For an overview of the plotting methods we provide, see Plot types This page contains example plots. Click on any image to see the full image and source code. For longer tutorials, see …

Pyplot tutorial # An introduction to the pyplot interface. Please also see Quick start guide for an overview of how Matplotlib works and Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) for an explanation of the trade …

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

Tutorials # 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 …

Quick start guide # This tutorial covers some basic usage patterns and best practices to help you get started with Matplotlib.

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 …

If this command results in Matplotlib being compiled from source and there's trouble with the compilation, you can add --prefer-binary to select the newest version of Matplotlib for which there is a …

API Reference # Matplotlib interfaces # Matplotlib has two interfaces. See Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) for a more detailed description of both and their recommended use cases.