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<h1>Toolkits<a class="headerlink" href="#toolkits" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Release:</th><td class="field-body">1.3.0</td>

<tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Date:</th><td class="field-body">July 31, 2013</td>

<p id="id1">Toolkits are collections of application-specific functions that extend matplotlib.</p>

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<span id="toolkit-basemap"></span><h2>Basemap (<em>Not distributed with matplotlib</em>)<a class="headerlink" href="#basemap-not-distributed-with-matplotlib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>Plots data on map projections, with continental and political

boundaries, see <a class="reference external" href="http://matplotlib.org/basemap">basemap</a>

docs.</p>

<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="http://matplotlib.org/basemap/_images/contour1.png"><img alt="http://matplotlib.org/basemap/_images/contour1.png" src="http://matplotlib.org/basemap/_images/contour1.png" style="height: 400px;" /></a>

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<h2>Cartopy (<em>Not distributed with matplotlib</em>)<a class="headerlink" href="#cartopy-not-distributed-with-matplotlib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>An alternative mapping library written for matplotlib <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">v1.2</span></tt> and beyond.

<a class="reference external" href="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest">Cartopy</a> builds on top of

matplotlib to provide object oriented map projection definitions and close

integration with Shapely for powerful yet easy-to-use vector data processing

tools. An example plot from the

<a class="reference external" href="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/gallery.html">Cartopy gallery</a>:</p>

<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/_images/hurricane_katrina_01_00.png"><img alt="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/_images/hurricane_katrina_01_00.png" src="http://scitools.org.uk/cartopy/docs/latest/_images/hurricane_katrina_01_00.png" style="height: 400px;" /></a>

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<span id="toolkit-gtk"></span><h2>GTK Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#gtk-tools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>mpl_toolkits.gtktools provides some utilities for working with GTK.

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<span id="toolkit-excel"></span><h2>Excel Tools<a class="headerlink" href="#excel-tools" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>mpl_toolkits.exceltools provides some utilities for working with

Excel. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires

<a class="reference external" href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt">xlwt</a></p>

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<span id="toolkit-natgrid"></span><h2>Natgrid (<em>Not distributed with matplotlib</em>)<a class="headerlink" href="#natgrid-not-distributed-with-matplotlib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>mpl_toolkits.natgrid is an interface to natgrid C library for gridding

irregularly spaced data. This requires a separate installation of the

natgrid toolkit from the sourceforge <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=80706&amp;package_id=142792">download</a>

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<span id="toolkit-mplot3d"></span><h2>mplot3d<a class="headerlink" href="#mplot3d" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p><a class="reference internal" href="mplot3d/index.html#toolkit-mplot3d-index"><em>mpl_toolkits.mplot3d</em></a> provides some basic 3D plotting (scatter, surf,

line, mesh) tools. Not the fastest or feature complete 3D library out

there, but ships with matplotlib and thus may be a lighter weight

solution for some use cases.</p>

<p>(<a class="reference external" href="../mpl_examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo2.py">Source code</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../mpl_examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo2.png">png</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../mpl_examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo2.hires.png">hires.png</a>, <a class="reference external" href="../mpl_examples/mplot3d/contourf3d_demo2.pdf">pdf</a>)</p>

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<span id="toolkit-axes-grid"></span><h2>AxesGrid<a class="headerlink" href="#axesgrid" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

<p>The matplotlib <a class="reference internal" href="axes_grid/index.html#toolkit-axesgrid-index"><em>AxesGrid</em></a> toolkit is a collection of helper classes to

ease displaying multiple images in matplotlib. The AxesGrid toolkit is

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