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matplotlib.patches.Rectangle

class matplotlib.patches.Rectangle(xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs)[source]

Draw a rectangle with lower left at xy = (x, y) with specified width, height and rotation angle.

Parameters:
xy: length-2 tuple

The bottom and left rectangle coordinates

width:

Rectangle width

height:

Rectangle height

angle: float, optional

rotation in degrees anti-clockwise about xy (default is 0.0)

fill: bool, optional

Whether to fill the rectangle (default is True)

Notes

Valid kwargs are:

Property Description
agg_filter a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha float or None
animated bool
antialiased or aa bool or None
capstyle [‘butt’ | ‘round’ | ‘projecting’]
clip_box a Bbox instance
clip_on bool
clip_path [(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
color matplotlib color spec
contains a callable function
edgecolor or ec mpl color spec, None, ‘none’, or ‘auto’
facecolor or fc mpl color spec, or None for default, or ‘none’ for no color
figure a Figure instance
fill bool
gid an id string
hatch [‘/’ | ‘' | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’]
joinstyle [‘miter’ | ‘round’ | ‘bevel’]
label object
linestyle or ls [‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or lw float or None for default
path_effects AbstractPathEffect
picker [None | bool | float | callable]
rasterized bool or None
sketch_params (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap bool or None
transform Transform
url a url string
visible bool
zorder float
get_bbox()[source]
get_height()[source]

Return the height of the rectangle

get_patch_transform()[source]

Return the Transform instance which takes patch coordinates to data coordinates.

For example, one may define a patch of a circle which represents a radius of 5 by providing coordinates for a unit circle, and a transform which scales the coordinates (the patch coordinate) by 5.

get_path()[source]

Return the vertices of the rectangle

get_width()[source]

Return the width of the rectangle

get_x()[source]

Return the left coord of the rectangle

get_xy()[source]

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle

get_y()[source]

Return the bottom coord of the rectangle

set_bounds(*args)[source]

Set the bounds of the rectangle: l,b,w,h

ACCEPTS: (left, bottom, width, height)

set_height(h)[source]

Set the height of the rectangle

set_width(w)[source]

Set the width of the rectangle

set_x(x)[source]

Set the left coord of the rectangle

set_xy(xy)[source]

Set the left and bottom coords of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: 2-item sequence

set_y(y)[source]

Set the bottom coord of the rectangle

xy

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle