User's Guide

Release:3.0.3 Date:February 28, 2019

• Installing
  • Installing an official release
  • Third-party distributions of Matplotlib
  • Installing from source
• Tutorials
  • Introductory
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
  • Colors
  • Text
  • Toolkits
• Interactive plots
  • Interactive navigation
  • Using matplotlib in a python shell
  • Event handling and picking
• What's new in Matplotlib 3.0.3
  • axes_grid1 and axisartist Axes no longer draw spines twice
• New in Matplotlib 3.0.0
  • Improved default backend selection
  • Cyclic colormaps
  • Ability to scale axis by a fixed order of magnitude
  • Add AnchoredDirectionArrows feature to mpl_toolkits
  • Add minorticks_on()/off() methods for colorbar
  • Colorbar ticks can now be automatic
  • Don't automatically rename duplicate file names
  • Legend now has a title_fontsize kwarg (and rcParam)
  • Support for axes.prop_cycle property markevery in rcParams
  • Multipage PDF support for pgf backend
  • Pie charts are now circular by default
  • Add ax.get_gridspec to SubplotBase
  • Axes titles will no longer overlap xaxis
  • New convenience methods for GridSpec
  • Figure has an add_artist method
  • :math: directive renamed to :mathmpl:
• Previous Whats New
  • New in Matplotlib 2.2
  • New in Matplotlib 2.1.0
  • New in matplotlib 2.0
  • New in matplotlib 1.5
  • New in matplotlib 1.4
  • New in matplotlib 1.3
  • New in matplotlib 1.2.2
  • New in matplotlib 1.2
  • New in matplotlib 1.1
  • New in matplotlib 1.0
  • New in matplotlib 0.99
  • New in matplotlib 0.98.4
  • List of changes to Matplotlib prior to 2015
• History
• GitHub Stats
  • Previous Github Stats
• License
  • Copyright Policy
  • License agreement for matplotlib 3.0.3
  • License agreement for matplotlib versions prior to 1.3.0
• Credits