plotext 5.2.7

plotext plots directly on terminal

plotext plots directly on terminal

• it allows for scatter, line, bar, histogram and date-time plots (including candlestick),
• it can also plot error bars, confusion matrices, and add extra text, lines and shapes to the plot,
• you could use it to plot images (including GIFs) and stream video with audio (including YouTube),
• it has no dependencies (except for optional dependencies for image/video plotting),
• it provides a simple command line tool,
• it can save plots as text or as colored html,
• it provides a tool to color strings.

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Install

• pip install plotext for normal installation,
• pip install plotext --upgrade to upgrade to the latest PyPi version,
• pip install "plotext[image]" to install the optional dependency for image plotting (including GIFs),
• pip install "plotext[video]" to install the optional dependencies for video rendering, which will also allow to plot images,
• pip install "plotext[completion]" to allow TAB completion in the command line tool (under development),
• pip install git+https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext, to install the GitHub version, if more updated and you feel courageous,
  • pip install "plotext[image] @ git+https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext.git" to include image plotting dependencies,
  • pip install "plotext[video] @ git+https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext.git" to include video plotting dependencies,
  • pip install "plotext[completion] @ git+https://github.com/piccolomo/plotext.git" to include the TAB completion dependency,
• the optional packages are pillow (for image plotting), opencv-python (for video rendering), ffpyplayer (to stream audio), pafy and youtube-dl (to stream YouTube), shtab (for TAB completion),
• use the function test() to quickly test (up to image rendering) your newly installed version of plotext: any issue report is very welcomed. This function will download and finally remove a test image.
• created and tested in Ubuntu 22.04 and Python 3.10,

Guide

Main Plots

• Basic Plots
• Bar Plots
• Datetime Plots
• Other Plots

Plotting Utilities

• Settings
• Aspect
• Subplots

2D Plots

• Matrix Plots
• Image Plots
• Play Videos

Other Resources

• Utilities
• Environments
• Notes