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Matplotlib Figure and Axes Model

Matplotlib composes a Figure containing one or more Axes, each owning its coordinate system, artists, and scales; the object-oriented API (fig, ax = plt.subplots()) is the maintainable path, with pyplot's implicit state a thin wrapper over it. Higher-level libraries like seaborn and pandas .plot render onto these same Axes objects.

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Matplotlib composes a Figure containing one or more Axes, each owning its coordinate system, artists, and scales; the object-oriented API (fig, ax = plt.subplots()) is the maintainable path, with pyplot's implicit state a thin wrapper over it. Higher-level libraries like seaborn and pandas .plot render onto these same Axes objects.

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