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Matplotlib Pyplot

Learn all about Matplotlib Pyplot in this comprehensive tutorial.

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•Most of the Matplotlib utilities lies under the pyplot submodule, and are usually imported under the plt alias:

Pyplot

Most of the Matplotlib utilities lies under the pyplot submodule, and are usually imported under the plt alias:

python

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

Now the Pyplot package can be referred to as plt.

python

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

  xpoints = np.array([0, 6])ypoints = np.array([0, 250])plt.plot(xpoints, 
  ypoints)
plt.show()

Note: You will learn more about drawing (plotting) in the next chapters.

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