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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)
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Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

by Igor Milovanovic, Dimitry Foures, Giuseppe Vettigli
November 2015
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
6h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Python Data Visualization Cookbook (Second Edition)

Customizing matplotlib's parameters in code

The library we will use the most throughout this book is matplotlib; it provides the plotting capabilities. Default values for most properties are already set inside the configuration file for matplotlib, called .rc file. This recipe describes how to modify matplotlib properties from our application code.

Getting ready

As we already said, matplotlib configuration is read from a configuration file. This file provides a place to set up permanent default values for certain matplotlib properties, well, for almost everything in matplotlib.

How to do it...

There are two ways to change parameters during code execution: using the dictionary of parameters (rcParams) or calling the matplotlib.rc() command. The former ...

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