User's Guide

Release:3.3.2.post1744+g1c65075b7 Date:September 15, 2020

• Installation Guide
  • Installing an official release
  • Third-party distributions of Matplotlib
  • Installing from source
• Tutorials
  • Introductory
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Colors
  • Provisional
  • Text
  • Toolkits
• Interactive Figures
  • Interactive Figures and Asynchronous Programming
  • Event handling and picking
  • IPython integration
  • Interactive mode
  • Default UI
  • Other Python prompts
• What's new?
  • Colormap.set_extremes and Colormap.with_extremes
  • Add cm.unregister_cmap function
  • Transform can rotate text direction
  • Contour plots now default to using ScalarFormatter
  • Consecutive rasterized draws now merged
  • Subplot and subplot2grid can now work with constrained layout
  • Axes.errorbar cycles non-color properties correctly
  • Instructions for writing "What's new" entries
  • Transparency (alpha) can be set as an array in collections
  • add_subplot/add_axes gained an axes_class parameter
  • A list of hatches can be specified to bar and barh
  • New CenteredNorm for symmetrical data around a center
  • Gridspec-based colorbars can now be positioned above or to the left of the main axes
  • Get under/over/bad colors of Colormap objects
  • IPython representations for Colormap objects
  • Date formatters now respect usetex rcParam
  • errorbar errorevery parameter matches markevery
  • Errorbar method for mplot3d
  • 3D Collection properties are now modifiable
  • Panning for mplot3d
  • Pausing and Resuming Animations
  • pcolormesh has improved transparency handling by enabling snapping
  • PDF supports URLs on Text artists
  • New rcParams for dates: set converter and whether to use interval_multiples
  • The color of ticks and tick labels can be set independently using rcParams
  • Added orientation parameter for stem plots
  • New StepPatch artist and a stairs method
  • New subfigure functionality
• What's new in Matplotlib 3.3.0
  • Figure and Axes creation / management
  • Colors and colormaps
  • Titles, ticks, and labels
  • Other changes
  • Fonts
  • rcParams improvements
  • 3D Axes improvements
  • Interactive tool improvements
  • Functions to compute a Path's size
  • Backend-specific improvements
• History
• GitHub Stats
  • Previous GitHub Stats
• Previous What's New
  • What's new in Matplotlib 3.2
  • What's new in Matplotlib 3.1
  • New in Matplotlib 3.0
  • New in Matplotlib 2.2
  • New in Matplotlib 2.1.0
  • New in matplotlib 2.0
  • New in matplotlib 1.5
  • New in matplotlib 1.4
  • New in matplotlib 1.3
  • New in matplotlib 1.2.2
  • New in matplotlib 1.2
  • New in matplotlib 1.1
  • New in matplotlib 1.0
  • New in matplotlib 0.99
  • New in matplotlib 0.98.4
  • List of changes to Matplotlib prior to 2015
• License
  • Copyright Policy
  • License agreement for matplotlib 3.3.2.post1744+g1c65075b7
  • License agreement for matplotlib versions prior to 1.3.0
• Citing Matplotlib
  • DOIs
• Credits