API Reference — Matplotlib 3.11.2 documentation

Matplotlib has two interfaces. See Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs) for a more detailed description of both and their recommended use cases.
Axes interface (object-based, explicit)
create a Figure and one or more Axes objects, then explicitly use methods on these objects to add data, configure limits, set labels etc.
subplots: create Figure and Axes
axes: add data, limits, labels etc.
Figure: for figure-level methods
pyplot interface (function-based, implicit)
consists of functions in the pyplot module. Figure and Axes are manipulated through these functions and are only implicitly present in the background.
Alphabetical list of modules:
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