How-to and troubleshooting

Release

3.5.2

Date

July 17, 2022

Frequently asked questions about Matplotlib:

• How-to
  • Why do I have so many ticks, and/or why are they out of order?
  • Determine the extent of Artists in the Figure
  • Check whether a figure is empty
  • Find all objects in a figure of a certain type
  • Prevent ticklabels from having an offset
  • Save transparent figures
  • Save multiple plots to one pdf file
  • Make room for tick labels
  • Align my ylabels across multiple subplots
  • Control the draw order of plot elements
  • Make the aspect ratio for plots equal
  • Draw multiple y-axis scales
  • Generate images without having a window appear
  • Work with threads
• Troubleshooting
  • Obtaining Matplotlib version
  • matplotlib install location
  • matplotlib configuration and cache directory locations
  • Getting help
  • Problems with recent git versions
• Environment variables
  • Setting environment variables in Linux and macOS
  • Setting environment variables in Windows