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-matplotlib examples
+Matplotlib examples
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-There are a variety of ways to use matplotlib, and most of them are
+There are a variety of ways to use Matplotlib, and most of them are
illustrated in the examples in this directory.
-Probably the most common way people use matplotlib is with the
-procedural interface, which follows the matlab/IDL/mathematica
-approach of using simple procedures like "plot" or "title" to modify
-the current figure. These examples are included in the "pylab_examples"
-directory. If you want to write more robust scripts, e.g., for
-production use or in a web application server, you will probably want
-to use the matplotlib API for full control. These examples are found
-in the "api" directory. Below is a brief description of the different
-directories found here:
+Probably the most common way people use Matplotlib is with the
+procedural interface, which follows the MATLAB/IDL/Mathematica approach
+of using simple procedures like "plot" or "title" to modify the current
+figure. These examples are included in the "pylab_examples" directory.
+If you want to write more robust scripts, e.g., for production use or in
+a web application server, you will probably want to use the Matplotlib
+API for full control. These examples are found in the "api" directory.
+Below is a brief description of the different directories found here:
- * animation - dynamic plots, see the tutorial at
- http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Animations
+ * animation - Dynamic plots, see the documentation at
+ http://matplotlib.org/api/animation_api.html
- * api - working with the matplotlib API directory.
+ * api - working with the Matplotlib API directly.
- * axes_grid1 - Examples related to the axes_grid1 toolkit
+ * axes_grid1 - Examples related to the axes_grid1 toolkit.
- * axisartist - Examples related to the axisartist toolkit
+ * axisartist - Examples related to the axisartist toolkit.
- * event_handling - how to interact with your figure, mouse presses,
+ * event_handling - How to interact with your figure, mouse presses,
key presses, object picking, etc.
- * misc - some miscellaneous examples. some demos for loading and
- working with record arrays
+ * misc - Miscellaneous examples. Some demos for loading and working
+ with record arrays.
- * mplot3d - 3D examples
+ * mplot3d - 3D examples.
- * pylab_examples - the interface to matplotlib similar to matlab
+ * pylab_examples - The interface to Matplotlib similar to MATLAB.
- * tests - tests used by matplotlib developers to check functionality
+ * tests - Tests used by Matplotlib developers to check functionality.
(These tests are still sometimes useful, but mostly developers should
- use the nosetests which perform automatic image comparison.)
+ use the pytest tests which perform automatic image comparison.)
- * units - working with unit data an custom types in matplotlib
+ * units - Working with unit data and custom types in Matplotlib.
- * user_interfaces - using matplotlib in a GUI application, e.g.,
- TkInter, WXPython, pygtk, pyqt widgets
+ * user_interfaces - Using Matplotlib in a GUI application, e.g.,
+ Tkinter, wxPython, PyGObject, PyQt widgets.
- * widgets - Examples using interactive widgets
+ * widgets - Examples using interactive widgets.