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Components

The image above shows the main components used to construct a figure. It is good to know about this components to better understand how Matplotlib works and to be able to customize the result.

• Figure: main container
  • instantiated with: pyplot.figure()
• Axes: plotting area
  • instantiated with: pyplot.subplot()
• Axis: x- and y-axis of a Axes plotting area
• Ticks: markers on the Axis

More information at:

• Artist tutorial