Tutorials#

This page contains a few tutorials for using Matplotlib. For the old tutorials, see below.

For shorter examples, see our examples page. You can also find external resources and a FAQ in our user guide.

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Pyplot tutorial

Pyplot tutorial

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Coding shortcuts

Coding shortcuts

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Image tutorial

Image tutorial

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The Lifecycle of a Plot

The Lifecycle of a Plot

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Artist tutorial

Artist tutorial

User guide tutorials#

Many of our tutorials were moved from this section to Using Matplotlib:

Introductory#

• Quick start guide

• Customizing Matplotlib with style sheets and rcParams

• Animations using Matplotlib

Intermediate#

• Legend guide

• Styling with cycler

• Constrained layout guide

• Tight layout guide

• Arranging multiple Axes in a Figure

• Axis autoscaling

• Positioning and orientation of imshow images

Advanced#

• Faster rendering by using blitting

• Path Tutorial

• Path effects guide

• Transformations Tutorial

Colors#

See Colors.

Text#

See Text.

Toolkits#

See User Toolkits.