How to change the transparency/opaqueness of a Matplotlib Table?

To change the transparency/opaqueness of a matplotlib table, we can atke following steps

Steps

Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.
Create a figure and a set of subplots.
Create a random dataset with 10×3 dimension.
Create a tuple of columns.
Get rid of the axis markers using axis('off').
Create a table with data and columns.
Iterate each cell of the table and change its transparency/opaqueness using set_alpha() method.
To display the figure, use Show() method.

Example

import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.00, 3.50]
plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True

fig, axs = plt.subplots(1, 1)
data = np.random.random((10, 3))
columns = ("Column I", "Column II", "Column III")

axs.axis('off')

the_table = axs.table(cellText=data, colLabels=columns, loc='center')

for k, cell in the_table._cells.items():
    cell.set_edgecolor('black')
    if k[0] == 0 or k[1] < 0:
        cell.set_text_props(weight='bold', color='w')
        cell.set_facecolor('red')
        cell.set_alpha(0.5)
    else:
        cell.set_facecolor(['green', 'yellow'][k[0] % 2])
        cell.set_alpha(0.5)

plt.show()

Output

It will produce the following output −

Rishikesh Kumar Rishi

Updated on: 09-Oct-2021

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