User’s Guide

Release:1.2.1 Date:March 26, 2013

• Introduction
• Installing
  • Manually installing pre-built packages
  • Installing from source
  • Build requirements
  • Building on OSX
• Pyplot tutorial
  • Controlling line properties
  • Working with multiple figures and axes
  • Working with text
• Interactive navigation
  • Navigation Keyboard Shortcuts
• Customizing matplotlib
  • The matplotlibrc file
  • Dynamic rc settings
• Using matplotlib in a python shell
  • Ipython to the rescue
  • Other python interpreters
  • Controlling interactive updating
• Working with text
  • Text introduction
  • Basic text commands
  • Text properties and layout
  • Writing mathematical expressions
  • Typesetting With XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
  • Text rendering With LaTeX
  • Annotating text
• Image tutorial
  • Startup commands
  • Importing image data into Numpy arrays
  • Plotting numpy arrays as images
• Artist tutorial
  • Customizing your objects
  • Object containers
  • Figure container
  • Axes container
  • Axis containers
  • Tick containers
• Customizing Location of Subplot Using GridSpec
  • Basic Example of using subplot2grid
  • GridSpec and SubplotSpec
  • Adjust GridSpec layout
  • GridSpec using SubplotSpec
  • A Complex Nested GridSpec using SubplotSpec
  • GridSpec with Varying Cell Sizes
• Tight Layout guide
  • Simple Example
• Legend guide
  • What to be displayed
  • Multicolumn Legend
  • Legend location
  • Multiple Legend
  • Legend of Complex Plots
• Event handling and picking
  • Event connections
  • Event attributes
  • Mouse enter and leave
  • Object picking
• Transformations Tutorial
  • Data coordinates
  • Axes coordinates
  • Blended transformations
  • Using offset transforms to create a shadow effect
  • The transformation pipeline
• Path Tutorial
  • Bézier example
  • Compound paths
• Annotating Axes
  • Annotating with Text with Box
  • Annotating with Arrow
  • Placing Artist at the anchored location of the Axes
  • Using Complex Coordinate with Annotation
  • Using ConnectorPatch
  • Zoom effect between Axes
  • Define Custom BoxStyle
• Our Favorite Recipes
  • Sharing axis limits and views
  • Easily creating subplots
  • Fixing common date annoyances
  • Fill Between and Alpha
  • Transparent, fancy legends
  • Placing text boxes
• Screenshots
  • Simple Plot
  • Subplot demo
  • Histograms
  • Path demo
  • mplot3d
  • Ellipses
  • Bar charts
  • Pie charts
  • Table demo
  • Scatter demo
  • Slider demo
  • Fill demo
  • Date demo
  • Financial charts
  • Basemap demo
  • Log plots
  • Polar plots
  • Legends
  • Mathtext_examples
  • Native TeX rendering
  • EEG demo
• What’s new in matplotlib
  • new in matplotlib-1.2
  • new in matplotlib-1.1
  • new in matplotlib-1.0
  • new in matplotlib-0.99
  • new in 0.98.4
• Github stats
• License
  • License agreement for matplotlib 1.2.1
• Credits