Summary

We've come a long way even in this chapter, so let's recap the arguments we touched:

• Object-oriented interfaces and the relationship with pyplot and pylab

• How to draw subplots and multiple figures

• How to manipulate axes so that they can be shared between subplots or can be shared between two plots

• Logarithmic scaled axes

• How to plot dates, and tune tick formatters and locators

• Text properties, fonts, and LaTeX typewriting both with the internal engine mathtext and with an external renderer

• Contour plots and image plotting

With the information that we have gathered so far, we are ready to extract Matplotlib from a pure script or interactive usage inside the Python interpreter and learn how we can embed this library in a GUI Python application.