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Some minor textual cleanup to the pyplot tutorial.
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an arbitrary number of arguments. For example, to plot x versus y,
you can issue the command::

plt.plot([1,2,3,4], [1,4,9,16])
plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4], [1, 4, 9, 16])

For every x, y pair of arguments, there is an optional third argument
which is the format string that indicates the color and line type of
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* Use the setter methods of a ``Line2D`` instance. ``plot`` returns a list
of ``Line2D`` objects; e.g., ``line1, line2 = plot(x1,y1,x2,y2)``. In the code
of ``Line2D`` objects; e.g., ``line1, line2 = plot(x1, y1, x2, y2)``. In the code
below we will suppose that we have only
one line so that the list returned is of length 1. We use tuple unpacking with
``line,`` to get the first element of that list::
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.. sourcecode:: ipython

In [69]: lines = plt.plot([1,2,3])
In [69]: lines = plt.plot([1, 2, 3])

In [70]: plt.setp(lines)
alpha: float
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numcols, fignum`` where ``fignum`` ranges from 1 to
``numrows*numcols``. The commas in the ``subplot`` command are
optional if ``numrows*numcols<10``. So ``subplot(211)`` is identical
to ``subplot(2,1,1)``. You can create an arbitrary number of subplots
to ``subplot(2, 1, 1)``. You can create an arbitrary number of subplots
and axes. If you want to place an axes manually, i.e., not on a
rectangular grid, use the :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.axes` command,
which allows you to specify the location as ``axes([left, bottom,
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import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.figure(1) # the first figure
plt.subplot(211) # the first subplot in the first figure
plt.plot([1,2,3])
plt.plot([1, 2, 3])
plt.subplot(212) # the second subplot in the first figure
plt.plot([4,5,6])
plt.plot([4, 5, 6])


plt.figure(2) # a second figure
plt.plot([4,5,6]) # creates a subplot(111) by default
plt.plot([4, 5, 6]) # creates a subplot(111) by default

plt.figure(1) # figure 1 current; subplot(212) still current
plt.subplot(211) # make subplot(211) in figure1 current
plt.title('Easy as 1,2,3') # subplot 211 title
plt.title('Easy as 1, 2, 3') # subplot 211 title

You can clear the current figure with :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.clf`
and the current axes with :func:`~matplotlib.pyplot.cla`. If you find
it annoying that states, like which figure is current, are being maintained for
you behind the scenes, don't despair: this is just a thin
it annoying that states (specifically the current figure and axes)
are being maintained for you behind the scenes, don't despair: this is just a thin
stateful wrapper around an object oriented API, which you can use
instead (see :ref:`artist-tutorial`)

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