
- Matplotlib Tutorial
- Matplotlib - Home
- Matplotlib - Introduction
- Matplotlib - Environment Setup
- Matplotlib - Anaconda distribution
- Matplotlib - Jupyter Notebook
- Matplotlib - Pyplot API
- Matplotlib - Simple Plot
- Matplotlib - PyLab module
- Object-oriented Interface
- Matplotlib - Figure Class
- Matplotlib - Axes Class
- Matplotlib - Multiplots
- Matplotlib - Subplots() Function
- Matplotlib - Subplot2grid() Function
- Matplotlib - Grids
- Matplotlib - Formatting Axes
- Matplotlib - Setting Limits
- Setting Ticks and Tick Labels
- Matplotlib - Twin Axes
- Matplotlib - Bar Plot
- Matplotlib - Histogram
- Matplotlib - Pie Chart
- Matplotlib - Scatter Plot
- Matplotlib - Contour Plot
- Matplotlib - Quiver Plot
- Matplotlib - Box Plot
- Matplotlib - Violin Plot
- Three-dimensional Plotting
- Matplotlib - 3D Contour Plot
- Matplotlib - 3D Wireframe plot
- Matplotlib - 3D Surface plot
- Matplotlib - Working With Text
- Mathematical Expressions
- Matplotlib - Working with Images
- Matplotlib - Transforms
- Matplotlib Useful Resources
- Matplotlib - Quick Guide
- Matplotlib - Useful Resources
- Matplotlib - Discussion
Matplotlib - Pyplot API
A new untitled notebook with the .ipynbextension (stands for the IPython notebook) is displayed in the new tab of the browser.

matplotlib.pyplot is a collection of command style functions that make Matplotlib work like MATLAB. Each Pyplot function makes some change to a figure. For example, a function creates a figure, a plotting area in a figure, plots some lines in a plotting area, decorates the plot with labels, etc.
Types of Plots
Sr.No | Function & Description |
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1 |
Bar Make a bar plot. |
2 |
Barh Make a horizontal bar plot. |
3 |
Boxplot Make a box and whisker plot. |
4 |
Hist Plot a histogram. |
5 |
hist2d Make a 2D histogram plot. |
6 |
Pie Plot a pie chart. |
7 |
Plot Plot lines and/or markers to the Axes. |
8 |
Polar Make a polar plot.. |
9 |
Scatter Make a scatter plot of x vs y. |
10 |
Stackplot Draws a stacked area plot. |
11 |
Stem Create a stem plot. |
12 |
Step Make a step plot. |
13 |
Quiver Plot a 2-D field of arrows. |
Image Functions
Sr.No | Function & Description |
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1 |
Imread Read an image from a file into an array. |
2 |
Imsave Save an array as in image file. |
3 |
Imshow Display an image on the axes. |
Axis Functions
Sr.No | Function & Description |
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1 |
Axes Add axes to the figure. |
2 |
Text Add text to the axes. |
3 |
Title Set a title of the current axes. |
4 |
Xlabel Set the x axis label of the current axis. |
5 |
Xlim Get or set the x limits of the current axes. |
6 |
Xscale . |
7 |
Xticks Get or set the x-limits of the current tick locations and labels. |
8 |
Ylabel Set the y axis label of the current axis. |
9 |
Ylim Get or set the y-limits of the current axes. |
10 |
Yscale Set the scaling of the y-axis. |
11 |
Yticks Get or set the y-limits of the current tick locations and labels. |
Figure Functions
Sr.No | Function & Description |
---|---|
1 |
Figtext Add text to figure. |
2 |
Figure Creates a new figure. |
3 |
Show Display a figure. |
4 |
Savefig Save the current figure. |
5 |
Close Close a figure window. |