Python matplotlib.pyplot Module

This page shows the popular functions and classes defined in the matplotlib.pyplot module. The items are ordered by their popularity in 40,000 open source Python projects. If you can not find a good example below, you can try the search function to search modules.

• 1. show()    
  Used in 3599 projects
• 2. figure()    
  Used in 3234 projects
• 3. plot()    
  Used in 2674 projects
• 4. savefig()    
  Used in 2315 projects
• 5. title()    
  Used in 2265 projects
• 6. xlabel()    
  Used in 2178 projects
• 7. ylabel()    
  Used in 2148 projects
• 8. subplots()    
  Used in 1886 projects
• 9. legend()    
  Used in 1802 projects
• 10. imshow()    
  Used in 1631 projects
• 11. close()    
  Used in 1471 projects
• 12. subplot()    
  Used in 1286 projects
• 13. axis()    
  Used in 1020 projects
• 14. tight_layout()    
  Used in 992 projects
• 15. ylim()    
  Used in 981 projects
• 16. gca()    
  Used in 904 projects
• 17. xlim()    
  Used in 899 projects
• 18. xticks()    
  Used in 855 projects
• 19. scatter()    
  Used in 813 projects
• 20. grid()    
  Used in 714 projects
• 21. colorbar()    
  Used in 664 projects
• 22. yticks()    
  Used in 642 projects
• 23. clf()    
  Used in 579 projects
• 24. text()    
  Used in 474 projects
• 25. hist()    
  Used in 438 projects
• 26. gcf()    
  Used in 368 projects
• 27. subplots_adjust()    
  Used in 355 projects
• 28. get_cmap()    
  Used in 348 projects
• 29. bar()    
  Used in 333 projects
• 30. rcParams()    
  Used in 328 projects
• 31. pause()    
  Used in 319 projects
• 32. draw()    
  Used in 299 projects
• 33. ion()    
  Used in 287 projects
• 34. setp()    
  Used in 271 projects
• 35. axes()    
  Used in 248 projects
• 36. suptitle()    
  Used in 238 projects
• 37. fill_between()    
  Used in 229 projects
• 38. Rectangle()    
  Used in 169 projects
• 39. annotate()    
  Used in 169 projects
• 40. axvline()    
  Used in 160 projects
• 41. cla()    
  Used in 157 projects
• 42. switch_backend()    
  Used in 156 projects
• 43. imread()    
  Used in 139 projects
• 44. rc()    
  Used in 138 projects
• 45. imsave()    
  Used in 132 projects
• 46. tick_params()    
  Used in 122 projects
• 47. axhline()    
  Used in 118 projects
• 48. yscale()    
  Used in 118 projects
• 49. subplot2grid()    
  Used in 117 projects
• 50. contourf()    
  Used in 116 projects
• 51. ioff()    
  Used in 114 projects
• 52. contour()    
  Used in 114 projects
• 53. errorbar()    
  Used in 107 projects
• 54. xscale()    
  Used in 103 projects
• 55. Axes()    
  Used in 99 projects
• 56. Circle()    
  Used in 98 projects
• 57. pcolormesh()    
  Used in 87 projects
• 58. semilogy()    
  Used in 71 projects
• 59. matshow()    
  Used in 58 projects
• 60. barh()    
  Used in 58 projects
• 61. loglog()    
  Used in 52 projects
• 62. step()    
  Used in 52 projects
• 63. pie()    
  Used in 50 projects
• 64. get_current_fig_manager()    
  Used in 50 projects
• 65. quiver()    
  Used in 50 projects
• 66. autoscale()    
  Used in 50 projects
• 67. vlines()    
  Used in 48 projects
• 68. gray()    
  Used in 47 projects
• 69. Figure()    
  Used in 47 projects
• 70. clabel()    
  Used in 45 projects
• 71. sca()    
  Used in 44 projects
• 72. hlines()    
  Used in 43 projects
• 73. hold()    
  Used in 42 projects
• 74. semilogx()    
  Used in 42 projects
• 75. Normalize()    
  Used in 41 projects
• 76. get_fignums()    
  Used in 41 projects
• 77. set_cmap()    
  Used in 39 projects
• 78. boxplot()    
  Used in 38 projects
• 79. margins()    
  Used in 38 projects
• 80. pcolor()    
  Used in 37 projects
• 81. waitforbuttonpress()    
  Used in 35 projects
• 82. Line2D()    
  Used in 35 projects
• 83. NullLocator()    
  Used in 33 projects
• 84. ticklabel_format()    
  Used in 33 projects
• 85. fill()    
  Used in 31 projects
• 86. stem()    
  Used in 28 projects
• 87. axvspan()    
  Used in 26 projects
• 88. plot_date()    
  Used in 25 projects
• 89. arrow()    
  Used in 25 projects
• 90. figaspect()    
  Used in 24 projects
• 91. clim()    
  Used in 23 projects
• 92. xkcd()    
  Used in 20 projects
• 93. hexbin()    
  Used in 19 projects
• 94. GridSpec()    
  Used in 19 projects
• 95. locator_params()    
  Used in 18 projects
• 96. figtext()    
  Used in 18 projects
• 97. twinx()    
  Used in 17 projects
• 98. rcdefaults()    
  Used in 17 projects
• 99. draw_if_interactive()    
  Used in 17 projects
• 100. fignum_exists()    
  Used in 17 projects
• 101. tripcolor()    
  Used in 16 projects
• 102. hist2d()    
  Used in 15 projects
• 103. tricontourf()    
  Used in 14 projects
• 104. Subplot()    
  Used in 13 projects
• 105. isinteractive()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 106. register_cmap()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 107. minorticks_on()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 108. stackplot()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 109. get_backend()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 110. Polygon()    
  Used in 12 projects
• 111. table()    
  Used in 11 projects
• 112. colormaps()    
  Used in 11 projects
• 113. ginput()    
  Used in 11 projects
• 114. FuncFormatter()    
  Used in 11 projects
• 115. triplot()    
  Used in 11 projects
• 116. MaxNLocator()    
  Used in 10 projects
• 117. rc_context()    
  Used in 10 projects
• 118. axhspan()    
  Used in 10 projects
• 119. specgram()    
  Used in 10 projects
• 120. violinplot()    
  Used in 9 projects
• 121. streamplot()    
  Used in 9 projects
• 122. NullFormatter()    
  Used in 9 projects
• 123. connect()    
  Used in 9 projects
• 124. fill_betweenx()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 125. barbs()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 126. MultipleLocator()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 127. FixedLocator()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 128. eventplot()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 129. rgrids()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 130. interactive()    
  Used in 7 projects
• 131. Artist()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 132. tricontour()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 133. FixedFormatter()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 134. polar()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 135. cm()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 136. quiverkey()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 137. figlegend()    
  Used in 6 projects
• 138. LinearLocator()    
  Used in 5 projects
• 139. box()    
  Used in 5 projects
• 140. delaxes()    
  Used in 5 projects
• 141. FormatStrFormatter()    
  Used in 5 projects
• 142. spy()    
  Used in 5 projects