Explanations

• Matplotlib Application Interfaces (APIs)
  • Native Matplotlib interfaces
  • Third-party library "Data-object" interfaces
  • Summary
  • Appendix: "Axes" interface with data structures
  • Appendix: "pylab" interface
• Backends
  • What is a backend?
  • Selecting a backend
  • The builtin backends
  • Using non-builtin backends
• Interactive figures
  • IPython integration
  • Interactive mode
  • Default UI
  • Other Python prompts
• Fonts in Matplotlib
  • Fonts in PDF and PostScript
  • Fonts in SVG
  • Fonts in Agg
  • How Matplotlib selects fonts
  • Font Fallback
• Event handling and picking
  • Event connections
  • Event attributes
  • Mouse enter and leave
  • Object picking
• Performance
  • Line segment simplification
  • Marker subsampling
  • Splitting lines into smaller chunks
  • Legends
  • Using the fast style
• Interactive figures and asynchronous programming
  • Event loops
  • Command prompt integration
  • Full embedding
  • Scripts and functions
  • Stale artists
  • Idle draw
  • Threading
  • Eventloop integration mechanism