Toolkits

Toolkits are collections of application-specific functions that extend matplotlib.

mplot3d

mpl_toolkits.mplot3d provides some basic 3D plotting (scatter, surf, line, mesh) tools. Not the fastest or feature complete 3D library out there, but ships with matplotlib and thus may be a lighter weight solution for some use cases.

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axes_grid1

The mpl_toolkits.axes_grid1 toolkit is a collection of helper classes to ease displaying multiple axes in matplotlib.

axisartist

The mpl_toolkits.axisartist toolkit contains a custom Axes class that is meant to support for curvilinear grids.

GTK Tools

mpl_toolkits.gtktools provides some utilities for working with GTK. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires pygtk.

Excel Tools

mpl_toolkits.exceltools provides some utilities for working with Excel. This toolkit ships with matplotlib, but requires xlwt