Plot types
Examples
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Reference
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Backends
Interactive figures
Fonts in Matplotlib text engine
Event handling and picking
Performance
Interactive figures and asynchronous programming
Explanations
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Backends
What is a backend?
Selecting a backend
The builtin backends
Using non-builtin backends
Interactive figures
IPython integration
Interactive mode
Default UI
Other Python prompts
Fonts in Matplotlib text engine
Font specifications
Subsetting
What to use?
Event handling and picking
Event connections
Event attributes
Mouse enter and leave
Object picking
Performance
Line segment simplification
Marker simplification
Splitting lines into smaller chunks
Legends
Using the
fast
style
Interactive figures and asynchronous programming
Event loops
Command prompt integration
Full embedding
Scripts and functions
Stale artists
Idle draw
Threading
Eventloop integration mechanism
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