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matplotlib.artist.kwdoc

matplotlib.artist.kwdoc(artist)[source]

Inspect an Artist class (using ArtistInspector) and return information about its settable properties and their current values.

Parameters:
artist : Artist or an iterable of Artists
Returns:
string

The settable properties of artist, as plain text if rcParams["docstring.hardcopy"] = False is False and as a rst table (intended for use in Sphinx) if it is True.