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Numerical Computing with Python
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Numerical Computing with Python

by Pratap Dangeti, Allen Yu, Claire Chung, Aldrin Yim
December 2018
Beginner to intermediate
682 pages
18h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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Importing the Matplotlib pyplot module

The Matplotlib package includes many modules, including artist that controls the aesthetics, and rcParams for setting default values. The Pyplot module is the plotting interface we will mostly deal with, which creates plots of data in an object-oriented manner.

By convention, we use the plt abbreviation when importing:

import matplotlib.pylot as plt

Don't forget to run the Jupyter Notebook cell magic %matplotlib inline to embed your figure in the output.

Don't use the pylab module!

The use of the pylab module is now discouraged, and generally replaced by the object-oriented (OO) interface. While pylab provides some convenience by importing matplotlib.pyplot and numpy under a single namespace. Many ...

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