matplotlib.collections

Classes for the efficient drawing of large collections of objects that share most properties, e.g., a large number of line segments or polygons.

The classes are not meant to be as flexible as their single element counterparts (e.g., you may not be able to select all line styles) but they are meant to be fast for common use cases (e.g., a large set of solid line segments).

class matplotlib.collections.AsteriskPolygonCollection(numsides, rotation=0, sizes=1, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection

Draw a collection of regular asterisks with numsides points.

numsides

the number of sides of the polygon

rotation

the rotation of the polygon in radians

sizes

gives the area of the circle circumscribing the regular polygon in points^2

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

Example: see Lasso Demo for a complete example:

offsets = np.random.rand(20, 2)
facecolors = [cm.jet(x) for x in np.random.rand(20)]

collection = RegularPolyCollection(
    numsides=5, # a pentagon
    rotation=0, sizes=(50,),
    facecolors=facecolors,
    edgecolors=("black",),
    linewidths=(1,),
    offsets=offsets,
    transOffset=ax.transData,
    )

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_numsides(self)

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_rotation(self)

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.BrokenBarHCollection(xranges, yrange, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.PolyCollection

A collection of horizontal bars spanning yrange with a sequence of xranges.

xranges

sequence of (xmin, xwidth)

yrange

ymin, ywidth

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, verts, closed=True)

This allows one to delay initialization of the vertices.

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_verts(self, verts, closed=True)

This allows one to delay initialization of the vertices.

set_verts_and_codes(self, verts, codes)

This allows one to initialize vertices with path codes.

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

static span_where(x, ymin, ymax, where, **kwargs) [source]

Create a BrokenBarHCollection to plot horizontal bars from over the regions in x where where is True. The bars range on the y-axis from ymin to ymax

A BrokenBarHCollection is returned. kwargs are passed on to the collection.

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.CircleCollection(sizes, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections._CollectionWithSizes

A collection of circles, drawn using splines.

sizes Gives the area of the circle in points^2

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.Collection(edgecolors=None, facecolors=None, linewidths=None, linestyles='solid', capstyle=None, joinstyle=None, antialiaseds=None, offsets=None, transOffset=None, norm=None, cmap=None, pickradius=5.0, hatch=None, urls=None, offset_position='screen', zorder=1, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.artist.Artist, matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable

Base class for Collections. Must be subclassed to be usable.

All properties in a collection must be sequences or scalars; if scalars, they will be converted to sequences. The property of the ith element of the collection is:

prop[i % len(props)]

Exceptions are capstyle and joinstyle properties, these can only be set globally for the whole collection.

Keyword arguments and default values:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• capstyle: None
• joinstyle: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• offset_position: 'screen' (default) or 'data'
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• hatch: None
• zorder: 1

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets). If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

The use of ScalarMappable is optional. If the ScalarMappable matrix _A is not None (i.e., a call to set_array has been made), at draw time a call to scalar mappable will be made to set the face colors.

Create a Collection

%(Collection)s

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent) [source]

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer) [source]

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self) [source]

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData) [source]

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self) [source]

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self) [source]

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self) [source]

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self) [source]

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self) [source]

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self) [source]

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self) [source]

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self) [source]

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self) [source]

get_offsets(self) [source]

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self) [source]

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self) [source]

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self) [source]

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self) [source]

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer) [source]

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha) [source]

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa) [source]

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs) [source]

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c) [source]

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c) [source]

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c) [source]

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch) [source]

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js) [source]

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls) [source]

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw) [source]

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position) [source]

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets) [source]

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self) [source]

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr) [source]

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls) [source]

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other) [source]

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self) [source]

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.EllipseCollection(widths, heights, angles, units='points', **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.Collection

A collection of ellipses, drawn using splines.

Parameters:

widthsarray-like The lengths of the first axes (e.g., major axis lengths). heightsarray-like The lengths of second axes. anglesarray-like The angles of the first axes, degrees CCW from the x-axis. units{'points', 'inches', 'dots', 'width', 'height', 'x', 'y', 'xy'} The units in which majors and minors are given; 'width' and 'height' refer to the dimensions of the axes, while 'x' and 'y' refer to the offsets data units. 'xy' differs from all others in that the angle as plotted varies with the aspect ratio, and equals the specified angle only when the aspect ratio is unity. Hence it behaves the same as the Ellipse with axes.transData as its transform.

Other Parameters:

**kwargs Additional kwargs inherited from the base Collection. Valid Collection keyword arguments: edgecolors: None facecolors: None linewidths: None antialiaseds: None offsets: None transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform() norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable) cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable) offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets) If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer) [source]

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.EventCollection(positions, orientation=None, lineoffset=0, linelength=1, linewidth=None, color=None, linestyle='solid', antialiased=None, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.LineCollection

A collection of discrete events.

The events are given by a 1-dimensional array, usually the position of something along an axis, such as time or length. They do not have an amplitude and are displayed as vertical or horizontal parallel bars.

Parameters:

positions1D array-like object Each value is an event. orientation{None, 'horizontal', 'vertical'}, optional The orientation of the collection (the event bars are along the orthogonal direction). Defaults to 'horizontal' if not specified or None. lineoffsetscalar, optional, default: 0 The offset of the center of the markers from the origin, in the direction orthogonal to orientation. linelengthscalar, optional, default: 1 The total height of the marker (i.e. the marker stretches from lineoffset - linelength/2 to lineoffset + linelength/2). linewidthscalar or None, optional, default: None If it is None, defaults to its rcParams setting, in sequence form. colorcolor, sequence of colors or None, optional, default: None If it is None, defaults to its rcParams setting, in sequence form. linestylestr or tuple, optional, default: 'solid' Valid strings are ['solid', 'dashed', 'dashdot', 'dotted', '-', '--', '-.', ':']. Dash tuples should be of the form: (offset, onoffseq), where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points. antialiased{None, 1, 2}, optional If it is None, defaults to its rcParams setting, in sequence form. **kwargsoptional Other keyword arguments are line collection properties. See LineCollection for a list of the valid properties.

Examples

(Source code, png, pdf)

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

add_positions(self, position) [source]

add one or more events at the specified positions

property aname

append_positions(self, position)

add one or more events at the specified positions

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

extend_positions(self, position)

add one or more events at the specified positions

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_color(self) [source]

get the color of the lines used to mark each event

get_colors(self)

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linelength(self) [source]

get the length of the lines used to mark each event

get_lineoffset(self) [source]

get the offset of the lines used to mark each event

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self) [source]

Get the width of the lines used to mark each event.

get_linewidths(self) [source]

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_orientation(self) [source]

Return the orientation of the event line ('horizontal' or 'vertical').

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_positions(self) [source]

return an array containing the floating-point values of the positions

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_segments(self)

Returns:	segmentslist List of segments in the LineCollection. Each list item contains an array of vertices.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_horizontal(self) [source]

True if the eventcollection is horizontal, False if vertical

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set the color(s) of the LineCollection.

Parameters:	ccolor or list of colors Matplotlib color argument (all patches have same color), or a sequence or rgba tuples; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linelength(self, linelength) [source]

set the length of the lines used to mark each event

set_lineoffset(self, lineoffset) [source]

set the offset of the lines used to mark each event

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_orientation(self, orientation=None) [source]

Set the orientation of the event line.

Parameters:	orientation: {'horizontal', 'vertical'} or None Defaults to 'horizontal' if not specified or None.

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, segments)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_positions(self, positions) [source]

set the positions of the events to the specified value

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_segments(self, segments)

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_verts(self, segments)

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

switch_orientation(self) [source]

switch the orientation of the event line, either from vertical to horizontal or vice versus

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.LineCollection(segments, linewidths=None, colors=None, antialiaseds=None, linestyles='solid', offsets=None, transOffset=None, norm=None, cmap=None, pickradius=5, zorder=2, facecolors='none', **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.Collection

All parameters must be sequences or scalars; if scalars, they will be converted to sequences. The property of the ith line segment is:

prop[i % len(props)]

i.e., the properties cycle if the len of props is less than the number of segments.

Parameters:

segments A sequence of (line0, line1, line2), where: linen = (x0, y0), (x1, y1), ... (xm, ym) or the equivalent numpy array with two columns. Each line can be a different length. colorssequence, optional A sequence of RGBA tuples (e.g., arbitrary color strings, etc, not allowed). antialiasedssequence, optional A sequence of ones or zeros. linestylesstr or tuple, optional Either one of {'solid', 'dashed', 'dashdot', 'dotted'}, or a dash tuple. The dash tuple is: (offset, onoffseq) where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points. normNormalize, optional Normalize instance. cmapstr or Colormap, optional Colormap name or Colormap instance. pickradiusfloat, optional The tolerance in points for mouse clicks picking a line. Default is 5 pt. zorderint, optional zorder of the LineCollection. Default is 2. facecolorsoptional The facecolors of the LineCollection. Default is 'none'. Setting to a value other than 'none' will lead to a filled polygon being drawn between points on each line.

Notes

If linewidths, colors, or antialiaseds is None, they default to their rcParams setting, in sequence form.

If offsets and transOffset are not None, then offsets are transformed by transOffset and applied after the segments have been transformed to display coordinates.

If offsets is not None but transOffset is None, then the offsets are added to the segments before any transformation. In this case, a single offset can be specified as:

offsets=(xo, yo)

and this value will be added cumulatively to each successive segment, so as to produce a set of successively offset curves.

The use of ScalarMappable is optional. If the ScalarMappable array _A is not None (i.e., a call to set_array() has been made), at draw time a call to scalar mappable will be made to set the colors.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_color(self) [source]

get_colors(self)

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_segments(self) [source]

Returns:	segmentslist List of segments in the LineCollection. Each list item contains an array of vertices.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c) [source]

Set the color(s) of the LineCollection.

Parameters:	ccolor or list of colors Matplotlib color argument (all patches have same color), or a sequence or rgba tuples; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, segments)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_segments(self, segments) [source]

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_verts(self, segments)

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.PatchCollection(patches, match_original=False, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.Collection

A generic collection of patches.

This makes it easier to assign a color map to a heterogeneous collection of patches.

This also may improve plotting speed, since PatchCollection will draw faster than a large number of patches.

patches

a sequence of Patch objects. This list may include a heterogeneous assortment of different patch types.

match_original

If True, use the colors and linewidths of the original patches. If False, new colors may be assigned by providing the standard collection arguments, facecolor, edgecolor, linewidths, norm or cmap.

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

The use of ScalarMappable is optional. If the ScalarMappable matrix _A is not None (i.e., a call to set_array has been made), at draw time a call to scalar mappable will be made to set the face colors.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, patches) [source]

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.PathCollection(paths, sizes=None, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections._CollectionWithSizes

This is the most basic Collection subclass. A PathCollection is e.g. created by a scatter() plot.

paths is a sequence of matplotlib.path.Path instances.

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self) [source]

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

legend_elements(self, prop='colors', num='auto', fmt=None, func=<function PathCollection.<lambda> at 0x7f61607afe50>, **kwargs) [source]

Creates legend handles and labels for a PathCollection. This is useful for obtaining a legend for a scatter() plot. E.g.:

scatter = plt.scatter([1, 2, 3],  [4, 5, 6],  c=[7, 2, 3])
plt.legend(*scatter.legend_elements())

Also see the Automated legend creation example.

Parameters:

propstring, optional, default "colors" Can be "colors" or "sizes". In case of "colors", the legend handles will show the different colors of the collection. In case of "sizes", the legend will show the different sizes. numint, None, "auto" (default), array-like, or Locator, optional Target number of elements to create. If None, use all unique elements of the mappable array. If an integer, target to use num elements in the normed range. If "auto", try to determine which option better suits the nature of the data. The number of created elements may slightly deviate from num due to a Locator being used to find useful locations. If a list or array, use exactly those elements for the legend. Finally, a Locator can be provided. fmtstr, Formatter, or None (default) The format or formatter to use for the labels. If a string must be a valid input for a StrMethodFormatter. If None (the default), use a ScalarFormatter. funcfunction, default lambda x: x Function to calculate the labels. Often the size (or color) argument to scatter() will have been pre-processed by the user using a function s = f(x) to make the markers visible; e.g. size = np.log10(x). Providing the inverse of this function here allows that pre-processing to be inverted, so that the legend labels have the correct values; e.g. func = np.exp(x, 10). kwargsfurther parameters Allowed keyword arguments are color and size. E.g. it may be useful to set the color of the markers if prop="sizes" is used; similarly to set the size of the markers if prop="colors" is used. Any further parameters are passed onto the Line2D instance. This may be useful to e.g. specify a different markeredgecolor or alpha for the legend handles.

Returns:

tuple (handles, labels) with handles being a list of Line2D objects and labels a matching list of strings.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, paths) [source]

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.PolyCollection(verts, sizes=None, closed=True, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections._CollectionWithSizes

verts is a sequence of ( verts0, verts1, ...) where verts_i is a sequence of xy tuples of vertices, or an equivalent numpy array of shape (nv, 2).

sizes is None (default) or a sequence of floats that scale the corresponding verts_i. The scaling is applied before the Artist master transform; if the latter is an identity transform, then the overall scaling is such that if verts_i specify a unit square, then sizes_i is the area of that square in points^2. If len(sizes) < nv, the additional values will be taken cyclically from the array.

closed, when True, will explicitly close the polygon.

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self, verts, closed=True)

This allows one to delay initialization of the vertices.

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_verts(self, verts, closed=True) [source]

This allows one to delay initialization of the vertices.

set_verts_and_codes(self, verts, codes) [source]

This allows one to initialize vertices with path codes.

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.QuadMesh(meshWidth, meshHeight, coordinates, antialiased=True, shading='flat', **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.Collection

Class for the efficient drawing of a quadrilateral mesh.

A quadrilateral mesh consists of a grid of vertices. The dimensions of this array are (meshWidth + 1, meshHeight + 1). Each vertex in the mesh has a different set of "mesh coordinates" representing its position in the topology of the mesh. For any values (m, n) such that 0 <= m <= meshWidth and 0 <= n <= meshHeight, the vertices at mesh coordinates (m, n), (m, n + 1), (m + 1, n + 1), and (m + 1, n) form one of the quadrilaterals in the mesh. There are thus (meshWidth * meshHeight) quadrilaterals in the mesh. The mesh need not be regular and the polygons need not be convex.

A quadrilateral mesh is represented by a (2 x ((meshWidth + 1) * (meshHeight + 1))) numpy array coordinates, where each row is the x and y coordinates of one of the vertices. To define the function that maps from a data point to its corresponding color, use the set_cmap() method. Each of these arrays is indexed in row-major order by the mesh coordinates of the vertex (or the mesh coordinates of the lower left vertex, in the case of the colors).

For example, the first entry in coordinates is the coordinates of the vertex at mesh coordinates (0, 0), then the one at (0, 1), then at (0, 2) .. (0, meshWidth), (1, 0), (1, 1), and so on.

shading may be 'flat', or 'gouraud'

Create a Collection

%(Collection)s

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

static convert_mesh_to_paths(meshWidth, meshHeight, coordinates) [source]

Converts a given mesh into a sequence of Path objects.

This function is primarily of use to implementers of backends that do not directly support quadmeshes.

convert_mesh_to_triangles(self, meshWidth, meshHeight, coordinates) [source]

Converts a given mesh into a sequence of triangles, each point with its own color. This is useful for experiments using draw_gouraud_triangle.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer) [source]

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData) [source]

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self) [source]

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self) [source]

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection(numsides, rotation=0, sizes=1, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections._CollectionWithSizes

Draw a collection of regular polygons with numsides.

numsides

the number of sides of the polygon

rotation

the rotation of the polygon in radians

sizes

gives the area of the circle circumscribing the regular polygon in points^2

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

Example: see Lasso Demo for a complete example:

offsets = np.random.rand(20, 2)
facecolors = [cm.jet(x) for x in np.random.rand(20)]

collection = RegularPolyCollection(
    numsides=5, # a pentagon
    rotation=0, sizes=(50,),
    facecolors=facecolors,
    edgecolors=("black",),
    linewidths=(1,),
    offsets=offsets,
    transOffset=ax.transData,
    )

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer) [source]

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_numsides(self) [source]

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_rotation(self) [source]

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.StarPolygonCollection(numsides, rotation=0, sizes=1, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection

Draw a collection of regular stars with numsides points.

numsides

the number of sides of the polygon

rotation

the rotation of the polygon in radians

sizes

gives the area of the circle circumscribing the regular polygon in points^2

Valid Collection keyword arguments:

• edgecolors: None
• facecolors: None
• linewidths: None
• antialiaseds: None
• offsets: None
• transOffset: transforms.IdentityTransform()
• norm: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)
• cmap: None (optional for matplotlib.cm.ScalarMappable)

offsets and transOffset are used to translate the patch after rendering (default no offsets)

If any of edgecolors, facecolors, linewidths, antialiaseds are None, they default to their matplotlib.rcParams patch setting, in sequence form.

Example: see Lasso Demo for a complete example:

offsets = np.random.rand(20, 2)
facecolors = [cm.jet(x) for x in np.random.rand(20)]

collection = RegularPolyCollection(
    numsides=5, # a pentagon
    rotation=0, sizes=(50,),
    facecolors=facecolors,
    edgecolors=("black",),
    linewidths=(1,),
    offsets=offsets,
    transOffset=ax.transData,
    )

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_numsides(self)

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self)

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_rotation(self)

get_sizes(self)

Returns the sizes of the elements in the collection. The value represents the 'area' of the element.

Returns:	sizesarray The 'area' of each element.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self)

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sizes(self, sizes, dpi=72.0)

Set the sizes of each member of the collection.

Parameters:	sizesndarray or None The size to set for each element of the collection. The value is the 'area' of the element. dpifloat The dpi of the canvas. Defaults to 72.0.

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0

class matplotlib.collections.TriMesh(triangulation, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.collections.Collection

Class for the efficient drawing of a triangular mesh using Gouraud shading.

A triangular mesh is a Triangulation object.

Create a Collection

%(Collection)s

add_callback(self, func)

Add a callback function that will be called whenever one of the Artist's properties changes.

Parameters:	funccallable The callback function. It must have the signature: def func(artist: Artist) -> Any where artist is the calling Artist. Return values may exist but are ignored.
Returns:	oidint The observer id associated with the callback. This id can be used for removing the callback with remove_callback later.

See also

remove_callback

add_checker(self, checker)

Add an entry to a dictionary of boolean flags that are set to True when the mappable is changed.

property aname

autoscale(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array

autoscale_None(self)

Autoscale the scalar limits on the norm instance using the current array, changing only limits that are None

property axes

The Axes instance the artist resides in, or None.

changed(self)

Call this whenever the mappable is changed to notify all the callbackSM listeners to the 'changed' signal

check_update(self, checker)

If mappable has changed since the last check, return True; else return False

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the mouse event occurred in the collection.

Returns bool, dict(ind=itemlist), where every item in itemlist contains the event.

static convert_mesh_to_paths(tri) [source]

Converts a given mesh into a sequence of Path objects.

This function is primarily of use to implementers of backends that do not directly support meshes.

convert_xunits(self, x)

Convert x using the unit type of the xaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the xaxis does not have units, x itself is returned.

convert_yunits(self, y)

Convert y using the unit type of the yaxis.

If the artist is not in contained in an Axes or if the yaxis does not have units, y itself is returned.

draw(self, renderer) [source]

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase subclass.

findobj(self, match=None, include_self=True)

Find artist objects.

Recursively find all Artist instances contained in the artist.

Parameters:

match A filter criterion for the matches. This can be None: Return all objects contained in artist. A function with signature def match(artist: Artist) -> bool. The result will only contain artists for which the function returns True. A class instance: e.g., Line2D. The result will only contain artists of this class or its subclasses (isinstance check). include_selfbool Include self in the list to be checked for a match.

Returns:

artistslist of Artist

format_cursor_data(self, data)

Return a string representation of data.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

The default implementation converts ints and floats and arrays of ints and floats into a comma-separated string enclosed in square brackets.

See also

get_cursor_data

get_agg_filter(self)

Return filter function to be used for agg filter.

get_alpha(self)

Return the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends

get_animated(self)

Return the animated state.

get_array(self)

Return the array

get_capstyle(self)

get_children(self)

Return a list of the child Artists of this Artist.

get_clim(self)

return the min, max of the color limits for image scaling

get_clip_box(self)

Return the clipbox.

get_clip_on(self)

Return whether the artist uses clipping.

get_clip_path(self)

Return the clip path.

get_cmap(self)

return the colormap

get_contains(self)

Return the custom contains function of the artist if set, or None.

See also

set_contains

get_cursor_data(self, event)

Return the cursor data for a given event.

Note

This method is intended to be overridden by artist subclasses. As an end-user of Matplotlib you will most likely not call this method yourself.

Cursor data can be used by Artists to provide additional context information for a given event. The default implementation just returns None.

Subclasses can override the method and return arbitrary data. However, when doing so, they must ensure that format_cursor_data can convert the data to a string representation.

The only current use case is displaying the z-value of an AxesImage in the status bar of a plot window, while moving the mouse.

Parameters:	eventmatplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

See also

format_cursor_data

get_dashes(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_datalim(self, transData)

get_ec(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_edgecolor(self)

get_edgecolors(self)

Alias for get_edgecolor.

get_facecolor(self)

get_facecolors(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_fc(self)

Alias for get_facecolor.

get_figure(self)

Return the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

get_fill(self)

return whether fill is set

get_gid(self)

Return the group id.

get_hatch(self)

Return the current hatching pattern.

get_in_layout(self)

Return boolean flag, True if artist is included in layout calculations.

E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

get_joinstyle(self)

get_label(self)

Return the label used for this artist in the legend.

get_linestyle(self)

get_linestyles(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_linewidth(self)

get_linewidths(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_ls(self)

Alias for get_linestyle.

get_lw(self)

Alias for get_linewidth.

get_offset_position(self)

Returns how offsets are applied for the collection. If offset_position is 'screen', the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

get_offset_transform(self)

get_offsets(self)

Return the offsets for the collection.

get_path_effects(self)

get_paths(self) [source]

get_picker(self)

Return the picking behavior of the artist.

The possible values are described in set_picker.

See also

set_picker, pickable, pick

get_pickradius(self)

get_rasterized(self)

Return whether the artist is to be rasterized.

get_sketch_params(self)

Returns the sketch parameters for the artist.

Returns:	sketch_paramstuple or None A 3-tuple with the following elements: scale: The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line. length: The length of the wiggle along the line. randomness: The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded. Returns None if no sketch parameters were set.

get_snap(self)

Returns the snap setting.

See set_snap for details.

get_tightbbox(self, renderer)

Like Artist.get_window_extent, but includes any clipping.

Parameters:	rendererRendererBase instance renderer that will be used to draw the figures (i.e. fig.canvas.get_renderer())
Returns:	bboxBbox The enclosing bounding box (in figure pixel co-ordinates).

get_transform(self)

Return the Transform instance used by this artist.

get_transformed_clip_path_and_affine(self)

Return the clip path with the non-affine part of its transformation applied, and the remaining affine part of its transformation.

get_transforms(self)

get_url(self)

Return the url.

get_urls(self)

get_visible(self)

Return the visibility.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Get the axes bounding box in display space.

The bounding box' width and height are nonnegative.

Subclasses should override for inclusion in the bounding box "tight" calculation. Default is to return an empty bounding box at 0, 0.

Be careful when using this function, the results will not update if the artist window extent of the artist changes. The extent can change due to any changes in the transform stack, such as changing the axes limits, the figure size, or the canvas used (as is done when saving a figure). This can lead to unexpected behavior where interactive figures will look fine on the screen, but will save incorrectly.

get_zorder(self)

Return the artist's zorder.

have_units(self)

Return True if units are set on any axis.

is_transform_set(self)

Return whether the Artist has an explicitly set transform.

This is True after set_transform has been called.

property mouseover

If this property is set to True, the artist will be queried for custom context information when the mouse cursor moves over it.

See also get_cursor_data(), ToolCursorPosition and NavigationToolbar2.

pchanged(self)

Call all of the registered callbacks.

This function is triggered internally when a property is changed.

See also

add_callback

remove_callback

pick(self, mouseevent)

Process a pick event.

Each child artist will fire a pick event if mouseevent is over the artist and the artist has picker set.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pickable

pickable(self)

Return whether the artist is pickable.

See also

set_picker, get_picker, pick

properties(self)

Return a dictionary of all the properties of the artist.

remove(self)

Remove the artist from the figure if possible.

The effect will not be visible until the figure is redrawn, e.g., with FigureCanvasBase.draw_idle. Call relim to update the axes limits if desired.

Note: relim will not see collections even if the collection was added to the axes with autolim = True.

Note: there is no support for removing the artist's legend entry.

remove_callback(self, oid)

Remove a callback based on its observer id.

See also

add_callback

set(self, **kwargs)

A property batch setter. Pass kwargs to set properties.

set_aa(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_agg_filter(self, filter_func)

Set the agg filter.

Parameters:	filter_funccallable A filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array.

set_alpha(self, alpha)

Set the alpha value used for blending - not supported on all backends.

Parameters:	alphafloat or None

set_animated(self, b)

Set the artist's animation state.

Parameters:	bbool

set_antialiased(self, aa)

Set the antialiasing state for rendering.

Parameters:	aabool or sequence of bools

set_antialiaseds(self, aa)

Alias for set_antialiased.

set_array(self, A)

Set the image array from numpy array A.

Parameters:	Andarray

set_capstyle(self, cs)

Set the capstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	cs{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} The capstyle

set_clim(self, vmin=None, vmax=None)

Set the norm limits for image scaling.

Parameters:	vmin, vmaxfloat The limits. The limits may also be passed as a tuple (vmin, vmax) as a single positional argument.

set_clip_box(self, clipbox)

Set the artist's clip Bbox.

Parameters:	clipboxBbox

set_clip_on(self, b)

Set whether the artist uses clipping.

When False artists will be visible out side of the axes which can lead to unexpected results.

Parameters:	bbool

set_clip_path(self, path, transform=None)

Set the artist's clip path.

Parameters:	pathPatch or Path or TransformedPath or None The clip path. If given a Path, transform must be provided as well. If None, a previously set clip path is removed. transformTransform, optional Only used if path is a Path, in which case the given Path is converted to a TransformedPath using transform.

Notes

For efficiency, if path is a Rectangle this method will set the clipping box to the corresponding rectangle and set the clipping path to None.

For technical reasons (support of setp), a tuple (path, transform) is also accepted as a single positional parameter.

set_cmap(self, cmap)

set the colormap for luminance data

Parameters:	cmapcolormap or registered colormap name

set_color(self, c)

Set both the edgecolor and the facecolor.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of rgba tuples

See also

Collection.set_facecolor, Collection.set_edgecolor

For setting the edge or face color individually.

set_contains(self, picker)

Define a custom contains test for the artist.

The provided callable replaces the default contains method of the artist.

Parameters:

pickercallable A custom picker function to evaluate if an event is within the artist. The function must have the signature: def contains(artist: Artist, event: MouseEvent) -> bool, dict that returns: a bool indicating if the event is within the artist a dict of additional information. The dict should at least return the same information as the default contains() implementation of the respective artist, but may provide additional information.

set_dashes(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_ec(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_edgecolor(self, c)

Set the edgecolor(s) of the collection.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors or 'face' The collection edgecolor(s). If a sequence, the patches cycle through it. If 'face', match the facecolor.

set_edgecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_edgecolor.

set_facecolor(self, c)

Set the facecolor(s) of the collection. c can be a color (all patches have same color), or a sequence of colors; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence.

If c is 'none', the patch will not be filled.

Parameters:	ccolor or sequence of colors

set_facecolors(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_fc(self, c)

Alias for set_facecolor.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:	figFigure

set_gid(self, gid)

Set the (group) id for the artist.

Parameters:	gidstr

set_hatch(self, hatch)

Set the hatching pattern

hatch can be one of:

/   - diagonal hatching
\   - back diagonal
|   - vertical
-   - horizontal
+   - crossed
x   - crossed diagonal
o   - small circle
O   - large circle
.   - dots
*   - stars

Letters can be combined, in which case all the specified hatchings are done. If same letter repeats, it increases the density of hatching of that pattern.

Hatching is supported in the PostScript, PDF, SVG and Agg backends only.

Unlike other properties such as linewidth and colors, hatching can only be specified for the collection as a whole, not separately for each member.

Parameters:	hatch{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}

set_in_layout(self, in_layout)

Set if artist is to be included in layout calculations, E.g. Constrained Layout Guide, Figure.tight_layout(), and fig.savefig(fname, bbox_inches='tight').

Parameters:	in_layoutbool

set_joinstyle(self, js)

Set the joinstyle for the collection (for all its elements).

Parameters:	js{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} The joinstyle

set_label(self, s)

Set a label that will be displayed in the legend.

Parameters:	sobject s will be converted to a string by calling str.

set_linestyle(self, ls)

Set the linestyle(s) for the collection.

linestyle	description
'-' or 'solid'	solid line
'--' or 'dashed'	dashed line
'-.' or 'dashdot'	dash-dotted line
':' or 'dotted'	dotted line

Alternatively a dash tuple of the following form can be provided:

(offset, onoffseq),

where onoffseq is an even length tuple of on and off ink in points.

Parameters:	ls{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} The line style.

set_linestyles(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_linewidth(self, lw)

Set the linewidth(s) for the collection. lw can be a scalar or a sequence; if it is a sequence the patches will cycle through the sequence

Parameters:	lwfloat or sequence of floats

set_linewidths(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_ls(self, ls)

Alias for set_linestyle.

set_lw(self, lw)

Alias for set_linewidth.

set_norm(self, norm)

Set the normalization instance.

Parameters:	normNormalize

Notes

If there are any colorbars using the mappable for this norm, setting the norm of the mappable will reset the norm, locator, and formatters on the colorbar to default.

set_offset_position(self, offset_position)

Set how offsets are applied. If offset_position is 'screen' (default) the offset is applied after the master transform has been applied, that is, the offsets are in screen coordinates. If offset_position is 'data', the offset is applied before the master transform, i.e., the offsets are in data coordinates.

Parameters:	offset_position{'screen', 'data'}

set_offsets(self, offsets)

Set the offsets for the collection.

Parameters:	offsetsarray-like (N, 2) or (2,)

set_path_effects(self, path_effects)

Set the path effects.

Parameters:	path_effectsAbstractPathEffect

set_paths(self) [source]

set_picker(self, picker)

Define the picking behavior of the artist.

Parameters:

pickerNone or bool or float or callable This can be one of the following: None: Picking is disabled for this artist (default). A boolean: If True then picking will be enabled and the artist will fire a pick event if the mouse event is over the artist. A float: If picker is a number it is interpreted as an epsilon tolerance in points and the artist will fire off an event if it's data is within epsilon of the mouse event. For some artists like lines and patch collections, the artist may provide additional data to the pick event that is generated, e.g., the indices of the data within epsilon of the pick event A function: If picker is callable, it is a user supplied function which determines whether the artist is hit by the mouse event: hit, props = picker(artist, mouseevent) to determine the hit test. if the mouse event is over the artist, return hit=True and props is a dictionary of properties you want added to the PickEvent attributes.

set_pickradius(self, pr)

Set the pick radius used for containment tests.

Parameters:	dfloat Pick radius, in points.

set_rasterized(self, rasterized)

Force rasterized (bitmap) drawing in vector backend output.

Defaults to None, which implies the backend's default behavior.

Parameters:	rasterizedbool or None

set_sketch_params(self, scale=None, length=None, randomness=None)

Sets the sketch parameters.

Parameters:	scalefloat, optional The amplitude of the wiggle perpendicular to the source line, in pixels. If scale is None, or not provided, no sketch filter will be provided. lengthfloat, optional The length of the wiggle along the line, in pixels (default 128.0) randomnessfloat, optional The scale factor by which the length is shrunken or expanded (default 16.0)

set_snap(self, snap)

Set the snapping behavior.

Snapping aligns positions with the pixel grid, which results in clearer images. For example, if a black line of 1px width was defined at a position in between two pixels, the resulting image would contain the interpolated value of that line in the pixel grid, which would be a grey value on both adjacent pixel positions. In contrast, snapping will move the line to the nearest integer pixel value, so that the resulting image will really contain a 1px wide black line.

Snapping is currently only supported by the Agg and MacOSX backends.

Parameters:	snapbool or None Possible values: True: Snap vertices to the nearest pixel center. False: Do not modify vertex positions. None: (auto) If the path contains only rectilinear line segments, round to the nearest pixel center.

set_transform(self, t)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:	tTransform

set_url(self, url)

Set the url for the artist.

Parameters:	urlstr

set_urls(self, urls)

Parameters:	urlsList[str] or None

set_visible(self, b)

Set the artist's visibility.

Parameters:	bbool

set_zorder(self, level)

Set the zorder for the artist. Artists with lower zorder values are drawn first.

Parameters:	levelfloat

property stale

Whether the artist is 'stale' and needs to be re-drawn for the output to match the internal state of the artist.

property sticky_edges

x and y sticky edge lists for autoscaling.

When performing autoscaling, if a data limit coincides with a value in the corresponding sticky_edges list, then no margin will be added--the view limit "sticks" to the edge. A typical use case is histograms, where one usually expects no margin on the bottom edge (0) of the histogram.

This attribute cannot be assigned to; however, the x and y lists can be modified in place as needed.

Examples

>>> artist.sticky_edges.x[:] = (xmin, xmax)
>>> artist.sticky_edges.y[:] = (ymin, ymax)

to_rgba(self, x, alpha=None, bytes=False, norm=True)

Return a normalized rgba array corresponding to x.

In the normal case, x is a 1-D or 2-D sequence of scalars, and the corresponding ndarray of rgba values will be returned, based on the norm and colormap set for this ScalarMappable.

There is one special case, for handling images that are already rgb or rgba, such as might have been read from an image file. If x is an ndarray with 3 dimensions, and the last dimension is either 3 or 4, then it will be treated as an rgb or rgba array, and no mapping will be done. The array can be uint8, or it can be floating point with values in the 0-1 range; otherwise a ValueError will be raised. If it is a masked array, the mask will be ignored. If the last dimension is 3, the alpha kwarg (defaulting to 1) will be used to fill in the transparency. If the last dimension is 4, the alpha kwarg is ignored; it does not replace the pre-existing alpha. A ValueError will be raised if the third dimension is other than 3 or 4.

In either case, if bytes is False (default), the rgba array will be floats in the 0-1 range; if it is True, the returned rgba array will be uint8 in the 0 to 255 range.

If norm is False, no normalization of the input data is performed, and it is assumed to be in the range (0-1).

update(self, props)

Update this artist's properties from the dictionary props.

update_from(self, other)

copy properties from other to self

update_scalarmappable(self)

Update colors from the scalar mappable array, if it is not None.

zorder = 0