User's Guide

Release:3.3.4.post2501+gbc972942b Date:January 28, 2021

• 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
  • Bar charts auto-labeling
  • Setting BarContainer orientation
  • Transform can rotate text direction
  • Contour plots now default to using ScalarFormatter
  • Axes.spines
  • 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
  • Axes3D now allows manual control of draw order
  • add_subplot/add_axes gained an axes_class parameter
  • Changes to behavior of Axes creation methods (gca(), add_axes(), add_subplot())
  • axline supports transform parameter
  • A list of hatches can be specified to bar and barh
  • Angles on Bracket arrow styles
  • Support callable for formatting of Sankey labels
  • New CenteredNorm for symmetrical data around a center
  • Collection color specification and mapping
  • 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
  • matplotlib.mathtext now supports overset and underset LaTeX symbols
  • 3D Collection properties are now modifiable
  • An iterable object with labels can be passed to Axes.plot
  • Panning for mplot3d
  • Pausing and Resuming Animations
  • pcolormesh has improved transparency handling by enabling snapping
  • PDF supports URLs on Text artists
  • New RangeSlider widget
  • 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
  • Sliders can now snap to arbitrary values
  • Stem plots in 3D Axes
  • Added orientation parameter for stem plots
  • New StepPatch artist and a stairs method
  • New subfigure functionality
  • supxlabel and supylabel
  • Shared-axes subplots tick label visibility is now correct for top or left labels
• 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 3.3.4.post2501+gbc972942b
  • License agreement for matplotlib versions prior to 1.3.0
• Citing Matplotlib
  • DOIs
• Credits