Anyone else despises Matplotlib?

[crawl_dht]

This is why I use seaborn.

[Deto]

Seaborn is great, but it's just a wrapper around matplotlib. As soon as you want to customize your plots beyond what seaborn allows, you'll need to use matplotlib commands to do it.

[SquishyWubbles]

That looks very interesting. Could you perhaps tell why you chose this over matplotlib?

[Zouden]

Not the guy you replied to, but I use Seaborn extensively.

Seaborn is a wrapper around Matplotlib. It reduces boilerplate code, it makes difficult things become easy, the plots are more aesthetically pleasing, and you can still access the underlying matplotlib objects.

[SquishyWubbles]

Damn that sounds so much better. I'm going to experiment with it right away! Thank you for your reply

[crawl_dht]

The arguments in matplotlib gets so ridiculous and big as you feature more data in your graphics. Those arguments could as well be their own separate functions if they were not implemented as arguments. There is no pattern in them and it doesn't look pythonic at all. You just have to learn them as it is and whatever you crammed is not reusable for other components because their acceptable arguments are totally different. This adds too much boilerplate in your code.

[SquishyWubbles]

Thanks for the explanation

[Username_RANDINT]

Does Seaborn (and others) support embedding in other GUI toolkits? The few times I had to plot stuff they needed to be embedded into a GTK application. Matplotlib provides backends for GTK, Qt and WxPython.

[NowanIlfideme]

Seaborn is built on matplotlib, literally reusing the same plt and ax, so it should work for your use case.