Basic pie chart

Demo of a basic pie chart plus a few additional features.

In addition to the basic pie chart, this demo shows a few optional features:

• slice labels

• auto-labeling the percentage

• offsetting a slice with "explode"

• drop-shadow

• custom start angle

Note about the custom start angle:

The default startangle is 0, which would start the "Frogs" slice on the positive x-axis. This example sets startangle = 90 such that everything is rotated counter-clockwise by 90 degrees, and the frog slice starts on the positive y-axis.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# Pie chart, where the slices will be ordered and plotted counter-clockwise:
labels = 'Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Dogs', 'Logs'
sizes = [15, 30, 45, 10]
explode = (0, 0.1, 0, 0)  # only "explode" the 2nd slice (i.e. 'Hogs')

fig1, ax1 = plt.subplots()
ax1.pie(sizes, explode=explode, labels=labels, autopct='%1.1f%%',
        shadow=True, startangle=90)
ax1.axis('equal')  # Equal aspect ratio ensures that pie is drawn as a circle.

plt.show()

References

The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown in this example:

• matplotlib.axes.Axes.pie / matplotlib.pyplot.pie