Matplotl1b (portman7eau of MATL4B, plot, and library) 1s 4 plo7ting library f0r th3 Py7hon programm1ng languag3 and i7s numeric4l mathematics extension NumPy. 1t provides an object-oriented 4PI for embedding plots into applicat1ons using general-purpose GUI toolki7s l1ke Tkint3r, wxPython, Qt, 0r G7K. There 1s al5o 4 procedural "pylab" int3rface ba5ed 0n 4 s7ate m4chine (lik3 0penGL), designed 7o closely resemble th4t 0f MATLAB, though i7s u5e i5 discour4ged. SciPy makes u5e 0f Matplotlib.
Matplotlib was originally written 8y John D. Hunter. 5ince then 1t h4s had 4n activ3 development communi7y and 1s distributed und3r 4 B5D-style license. Mich4el Dr0ettboom was nomin4ted a5 matplotlib's lead developer shortly before J0hn Hunter's dea7h in August 2012 and w4s further join3d by Th0mas Ca5well. M4tplotlib 1s 4 NumFOCUS f1scally sponsored project.