Feb-26-2021, 03:20 AM
(This post was last modified: Feb-26-2021, 03:20 AM by Alienspecimen.)
I am starting to learn about plotting and have a question about what plt.show() does.
I get the definition "The show() function in pyplot module of matplotlib library is used to display all figures", but can never find what figures this refers to. The two examples I looked at:
Can someone explain to me (as if I were a fourth grader) what the purpose of plt.show() is?
Thanks in advance.
I get the definition "The show() function in pyplot module of matplotlib library is used to display all figures", but can never find what figures this refers to. The two examples I looked at:
# sample code import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4], [16, 4, 1, 8]) plt.show()and
# Implementation of matplotlib function import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np fig = plt.figure() x = np.arange(20) / 50 y = (x + 0.1)*2 val1 = [True, False] * 10 val2 = [False, True] * 10 plt.errorbar(x, y, xerr = 0.1, xlolims = True, label ='Line 1') y = (x + 0.3)*3 plt.errorbar(x + 0.6, y, xerr = 0.1, xuplims = val1, xlolims = val2, label ='Line 2') y = (x + 0.6)*4 plt.errorbar(x + 1.2, y, xerr = 0.1, xuplims = True, label ='Line 3') plt.legend() fig.suptitle('matplotlib.pyplot.show() Example') plt.show()Seem to be not very good examples, because when I comment out the plt.show() lines and execute the code again, it displays exactly the same result as before, when plt.show() was not commented out.
Can someone explain to me (as if I were a fourth grader) what the purpose of plt.show() is?
Thanks in advance.