matplotlib是python的一個開源的2D繪圖庫，它的原作者是John D. Hunter，因為在設計上借鑒了matlab，所以成為matplotlib。和Pillow一樣是被廣泛使用的繪圖功能，而在深度學習相關的部分，matplotlib得寵的多。這篇文章將簡單介紹一下如何安裝以及使用它來畫一些非常常見的統計圖形。

概要信息

注意事項：由于Python2支持到2020年，很多python庫都開始主要支持python3了，matplotlib的主分支也已經是python3了。而這篇文章中為了簡單，安裝和demo代碼依然是在python2.7上進行驗證的。

安裝

使用pip install即可直接安裝。安裝日志如下：

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