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matplotlib.animation.MovieWriter.grab_frame

MovieWriter.grab_frame(**savefig_kwargs)

Grab the image information from the figure and save as a movie frame.

All keyword arguments in savefig_kwargs are passed on to the ‘savefig’ command that saves the figure.