Tends to be Ciro's pick if gnuplot can't handle the use case, or if the project is really really serious.
Couldn't handle exploration of large datasets though: Survey of open source interactive plotting software with a 10 million point scatter plot benchmark by Ciro Santilli
Examples:
- matplotlib/hello.py
- matplotlib/educational2d.py
- matplotlib/axis.py
- matplotlib/label.py
- Line style
- Subplots
- matplotlib/two_lines.py
- Data from files
- Specialized
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