Tutorials

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 anda FAQ in our user guide.

Pyplot tutorial

Pyplot tutorial

Image tutorial

Image tutorial

The Lifecycle of a Plot

The Lifecycle of a Plot

Artist tutorial

Artist tutorial

Download all examples in Python source code: tutorials_python.zip

Download all examples in Jupyter notebooks: tutorials_jupyter.zip

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

Autoscaling Axis

origin and extent in imshow

Advanced#

Faster rendering by using blitting

Path Tutorial

Path effects guide

Transformations Tutorial

Colors#

See Colors.

Text#

See Text.

Toolkits#

See User Toolkits.