matplotlib.patches.Rectangle

class matplotlib.patches.Rectangle(xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.patches.Patch

A rectangle defined via an anchor point xy and its width and height.

The rectangle extends from xy[0] to xy[0] + width in x-direction and from xy[1] to xy[1] + height in y-direction.

:                +------------------+
:                |                  |
:              height               |
:                |                  |
:               (xy)---- width -----+

One may picture xy as the bottom left corner, but which corner xy is actually depends on the the direction of the axis and the sign of width and height; e.g. xy would be the bottom right corner if the x-axis was inverted or if width was negative.

Parameters:

xy(float, float) The anchor point. widthfloat Rectangle width. heightfloat Rectangle height. anglefloat, default: 0 Rotation in degrees anti-clockwise about xy.

Other Parameters:

**kwargsPatch properties Property Description agg_filter a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array alpha float or None animated bool antialiased or aa unknown capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} clip_box Bbox clip_on bool clip_path Patch or (Path, Transform) or None color color contains unknown edgecolor or ec color or None or 'auto' facecolor or fc color or None figure Figure fill bool gid str hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'} in_layout bool joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} label object linestyle or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} linewidth or lw float or None path_effects AbstractPathEffect picker None or bool or callable rasterized bool or None sketch_params (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float) snap bool or None transform Transform url str visible bool zorder float

__init__(self, xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs) [source]

Parameters:

xy(float, float) The anchor point. widthfloat Rectangle width. heightfloat Rectangle height. anglefloat, default: 0 Rotation in degrees anti-clockwise about xy.

Other Parameters:

**kwargsPatch properties Property Description agg_filter a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array alpha float or None animated bool antialiased or aa unknown capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'} clip_box Bbox clip_on bool clip_path Patch or (Path, Transform) or None color color contains unknown edgecolor or ec color or None or 'auto' facecolor or fc color or None figure Figure fill bool gid str hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'} in_layout bool joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'} label object linestyle or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...} linewidth or lw float or None path_effects AbstractPathEffect picker None or bool or callable rasterized bool or None sketch_params (scale: float, length: float, randomness: float) snap bool or None transform Transform url str visible bool zorder float

__module__ = 'matplotlib.patches'

__str__(self) [source]

Return str(self).

get_bbox(self) [source]

Return the Bbox.

get_height(self) [source]

Return the height of the rectangle.

get_patch_transform(self) [source]

Return the Transform instance mapping patch coordinates to data coordinates.

For example, one may define a patch of a circle which represents a radius of 5 by providing coordinates for a unit circle, and a transform which scales the coordinates (the patch coordinate) by 5.

get_path(self) [source]

Return the vertices of the rectangle.

get_width(self) [source]

Return the width of the rectangle.

get_x(self) [source]

Return the left coordinate of the rectangle.

get_xy(self) [source]

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle as a tuple.

get_y(self) [source]

Return the bottom coordinate of the rectangle.

set_bounds(self, *args) [source]

Set the bounds of the rectangle as left, bottom, width, height.

The values may be passed as separate parameters or as a tuple:

set_bounds(left, bottom, width, height)
set_bounds((left, bottom, width, height))

set_height(self, h) [source]

Set the height of the rectangle.

set_width(self, w) [source]

Set the width of the rectangle.

set_x(self, x) [source]

Set the left coordinate of the rectangle.

set_xy(self, xy) [source]

Set the left and bottom coordinates of the rectangle.

Parameters:	xy(float, float)

set_y(self, y) [source]

Set the bottom coordinate of the rectangle.

property xy

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle as a tuple.

Examples using matplotlib.patches.Rectangle