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Chapter 9: Matplotlib

Save your figures

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Task 8: Immortalise your figure!

Finally, save your beautiful figure as a .png file!

See the official documentation on how to do this.

Once you are done, congratulate yourself! You have learnt all the basics of Matplotlib plotting. 😀 Prepare for your final grand challenge from Josiah on the next page!

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

resolution = 1000
x = np.linspace(0, 50, resolution)
y = np.sin(x)
z = np.exp(y)

plt.figure(1)
plt.plot(x, y, "b")
plt.plot(x, z, color="r")
plt.legend(["y", "z"], loc="upper center")
plt.title("My Graph")
plt.xlabel("Time (s)")
plt.ylabel("Amplitude (W)")
plt.ylim([-0.5, 2.0])
plt.savefig("my_figure.png")