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Matplotlib blog

Matplotlib is a comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations in Python.

Check out our home page for more information.

Matplotlib produces publication-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. Matplotlib can be used in Python scripts, Python/IPython shells, web application servers, and various graphical user interface toolkits.

Install

See the install documentation, which is generated from /doc/install/index.rst

Contribute

You've discovered a bug or something else you want to change — excellent!

You've worked out a way to fix it — even better!

You want to tell us about it — best of all!

Start at the contributing guide!

Contact

Discourse is the discussion forum for general questions and discussions and our recommended starting point.

Our active mailing lists (which are mirrored on Discourse) are:

• Users mailing list: [email protected]
• Announcement mailing list: [email protected]
• Development mailing list: [email protected]

Gitter is for coordinating development and asking questions directly related to contributing to matplotlib.

Citing Matplotlib

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A ready-made citation entry is available.

matplotblog's Issues

Attempting to contribute - Permission denied when attempting to push

I was asked to contribute and am following the steps on How to Contribute. The post looks good locally on hugo and I'm ready to make a pull request. Running the command git commit -am "my message" doesn't add anything and responds with the following message:

nothing added to commit but untracked files present

Manually adding files with `git add content/posts/post-my-post-name' and then committing and pushing gives me the following error:

The current branch post-create-a-tesla-cybertruck-that-drives has no upstream branch.

It advises me to add an upstream branch with

git push --set-upstream origin post-my-post-name

which ultimately denies me permission

remote: Permission to matplotlib/matplotblog.git denied to tdpetrou.

Should I just fork the repo and create a pull request that way?

Ability to provide thumbnail

I wanted to contribute a Post, but the plot does look really bad with the auto created thumbnail (very wide aspect ratio).

How could I explicitly provide a thumbnail for the list view that is not auto-generated from featuredImage or prevent that the featuredImage is show at the top of the post?

Lack of featured image in blog post

I am finishing my blog post and wanted to add summary figure at the top and in post "card-body" with the following code:

resources:
- name: featuredImage
  src: "fig4.jpg"
  params:
    description: "My description
    showOnTop: true

The imaged indeed appears at the top of the blog post, but it is not visible as in the snippet below. Any fix to that? Or maybe there is some ratio limit?

matplotblog May 27, 2020 typo, should be: plt.plot( time, distance, 'bo-')

first code block, line 4:
second code block, line 3:
third code block, line3:
plt.plot(distance,'bo-') should be plt.plot(time, distance, 'bo-')

I did not see a comment section at the blog itself.

Add instruction to fork to how to contribute

The "how to contribute" is missing instructions for creating a fork, which is necessary for everyone who doesn't have write permissions.

Archive?

Since the content was moved to https://blog.scientific-python.org/, should this repo be archived, w/ a note on the readme to submit new content there?

Would it be possible to get an RSS feed on the blog

Hi,
Thanks for launching this blog, I would be pleased if you where able to add an RSS feed to get the new articles.
Regards

Comments via Discourse?

We don't have general comments on the blog, but we do have Discourse. Discourse has a way of embedding itself as comments. I did not look much more than that post, but if we're interested in setting it up, I can investigate further.

Dropdown menu should include link to contribute guide

This menu:

should include a link to the contribute guide 'cause otherwise it will very quickly get lost in the blog posts- it's already off the first page.