Nov-23-2022, 01:59 AM
It means nothing.
When printing an object, Python calls a special method named __repr__() or __str__(). In your example it would call __repr__() because that is the one used when printing a list of objects. The author of the code can format the str any way they seem fit. The author of this matplotlib code decided to use the class name followed by some attributes, surrounded by angle brackets.
When printing an object, Python calls a special method named __repr__() or __str__(). In your example it would call __repr__() because that is the one used when printing a list of objects. The author of the code can format the str any way they seem fit. The author of this matplotlib code decided to use the class name followed by some attributes, surrounded by angle brackets.