.. _pyplots-annotation_polar: pyplots example code: annotation_polar.py ========================================= [`source code `_] :: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt fig = plt.figure() ax = fig.add_subplot(111, polar=True) r = np.arange(0,1,0.001) theta = 2*2*np.pi*r line, = ax.plot(theta, r, color='#ee8d18', lw=3) ind = 800 thisr, thistheta = r[ind], theta[ind] ax.plot([thistheta], [thisr], 'o') ax.annotate('a polar annotation', xy=(thistheta, thisr), # theta, radius xytext=(0.05, 0.05), # fraction, fraction textcoords='figure fraction', arrowprops=dict(facecolor='black', shrink=0.05), horizontalalignment='left', verticalalignment='bottom', ) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)