scitex-plt 0.24.4

SciTeX plotting module (alias for figrecipe)

scitex-plt

SciTeX plotting module - an alias package for figrecipe.

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Problem and Solution

#	Problem	Solution
1	Matplotlib boilerplate for publication figures — manually setting DPI, fonts, axis labels, CSV sidecars, and mm-precision layout for every paper figure	stx.plt.subplots() — thin wrapper around figrecipe returning a tracked axes with .plot_line(...), set_xyt(...), and publication-ready defaults
2	Figure and underlying data drift apart — the PNG lives in the repo, the CSV that generated it sits in a notebook cell and eventually disappears	Auto CSV export on save — stx.io.save(fig, "plot.png") writes plot.png + plot.csv + plot.yaml atomically so the data is always reproducible
3	No way for AI agents to generate figures — coding agents need a structured API, not matplotlib's stateful pyplot	MCP tools (plt_line, plt_scatter, plt_stx_*) — agents compose publication plots from CSVs via column specs, no inline arrays needed

Installation

pip install scitex-plt

This will automatically install figrecipe as a dependency.

Usage

import scitex_plt as plt

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot([1, 2, 3], [1, 4, 9])
plt.save(fig, "figure.png")

About

scitex-plt is part of the SciTeX ecosystem. It provides the same API as figrecipe for users who prefer the scitex-plt package name.

For full documentation, see figrecipe.

License

AGPL-3.0 - same as figrecipe.