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 user guide.

Pyplot tutorial

Pyplot tutorial

Image tutorial

Image tutorial

The Lifecycle of a Plot

The Lifecycle of a Plot

Artist tutorial

Artist tutorial

User guide tutorials

Many of our tutorials were moved from this section to Using Matplotlib:

Introductory

• Quick start guide

• Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams

• Animations using Matplotlib

Intermediate

• Legend guide

• Styling with cycler

• Constrained layout guide

• Tight layout guide

• Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure

• Autoscaling Axis

• origin and extent in imshow

Advanced

• Faster rendering by using blitting

• Path Tutorial

• Path effects guide

• Transformations Tutorial

Colors

See Colors.

Text

See Text.

Toolkits

See User Toolkits.