Matplotlib is a plotting library for the Python programming language and its numerical mathematics extension NumPy. It provides an object-oriented API for embedding plots into applications using general-purpose GUI toolkits like Tkinter, wxPython, Qt, or GTK+.
In this page, we will write some tutorials and examples on how to use matplotlib, you can learn how to draw graphics by using it.
In text processing, we may need to visualize some labeled data using scatter plots in matplotlib. In this tutorial, we will use an example to show you how to display them.
If you plan to insert an image to latex, you can insert a pgf or eps image. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to use matplotlib to create a pgf file for latex.
Matplotlib plt.subplot() function can allow us to display some graphics in one figure. In this tutorial, we will introdue how to use this function by using some examples.
matplotlib.rcParams[‘lines.color’] allows us to change the color of the line in matplotlib. However, it has no affect on plot() function. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to fix this problem.
We can use matplotlib.rcParams[‘lines.linestyle’] to set the style of line in matplotlib. In this tutorial, we will list all the line styles to help matplotlib beginners to use.
matplotlib.rcParams is a matplotlib.RcParams object, it is a dictionary-like variable which store some rc settings in matplotlib. In this tutorial, we will introduce how to use it.