Tutorials

This page contains a few tutorials for using Matplotlib. For the old tutorials, see :ref:`below <user_guide_tutorials>`.

For shorter examples, see our :ref:`examples page <examples-index>`. You can also find :ref:`external resources <resources-index>` and a :ref:`FAQ <howto-faq>` in our :ref:`user guide <users-guide-index>`.

.. minigallery::
   ../galleries/tutorials/pyplot.py
   ../galleries/tutorials/coding_shortcuts.py
   ../galleries/tutorials/images.py
   ../galleries/tutorials/lifecycle.py
   ../galleries/tutorials/artists.py

.. toctree::
   :hidden:

   /tutorials/pyplot
   /tutorials/coding_shortcuts
   /tutorials/images
   /tutorials/lifecycle
   /tutorials/artists

.. only:: html

  .. container:: sphx-glr-footer sphx-glr-footer-gallery

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-python

      :download:`Download all examples in Python source code: tutorials_python.zip </tutorials/tutorials_python.zip>`

    .. container:: sphx-glr-download sphx-glr-download-jupyter

      :download:`Download all examples in Jupyter notebooks: tutorials_jupyter.zip </tutorials/tutorials_jupyter.zip>`

User guide tutorials

Many of our tutorials were moved from this section to :ref:`users-guide-index`:

Introductory

• :ref:`quick_start`
• :ref:`customizing`
• :ref:`animations`

Intermediate

• :ref:`legend_guide`
• :ref:`color_cycle`
• :ref:`constrainedlayout_guide`
• :ref:`tight_layout_guide`
• :ref:`arranging_axes`
• :ref:`autoscale`
• :ref:`imshow_extent`

Advanced

• :ref:`blitting`
• :ref:`paths`
• :ref:`patheffects_guide`
• :ref:`transforms_tutorial`

Colors

See :ref:`tutorials-colors`.

Text

See :ref:`tutorials-text`.

Toolkits

See :ref:`tutorials-toolkits`.