Matplotlib 3.0 Cookbook

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The following code block plots three graphs, one on a linear scale and the other two on a logarithmic scale. The two logarithmic graphs also demonstrate how the physical size and the data scale can be adjusted:

1. Define the figure and its layout:

fig, (ax1, ax2, ax3) = plt.subplots(1, 3)

2. Plot a line graph on a linear scale on axis ax1:

ax1.plot([0.1, 5, 10, 500], [0.01, 25, 100, 10000], "x-")ax1.set(title="Linear Scale", xlim=(1e1, 1e3), ylim=(1e2, 1e4))

3. Draw an empty plot with a logarithmic scale on both x and y axes:

ax2.set(title="adjustable = box", xscale="log", yscale="log", xlim=       (1e1, 1e3), ylim=(1e2, 1e3), aspect=2)

4. Plot a line graph on ax3 with a logarithmic scale on both the x and the y axis:

ax3.plot([0.1, ...