matplotlib.table

This module provides functionality to add a table to a plot.

Use the factory function table to create a ready-made table from texts. If you need more control, use the Table class and its methods.

The table consists of a grid of cells, which are indexed by (row, column). The cell (0, 0) is positioned at the top left.

Thanks to John Gill for providing the class and table.

class matplotlib.table.Cell(xy, width, height, edgecolor='k', facecolor='w', fill=True, text='', loc=None, fontproperties=None)

Bases: matplotlib.patches.Rectangle

A cell is a Rectangle with some associated Text.

Parameters:

xy : 2-tuple

The position of the bottom left corner of the cell.

width : float

The cell width.

height : float

The cell height.

edgecolor : color spec

The color of the cell border.

facecolor : color spec

The cell facecolor.

fill : bool

Whether the cell background is filled.

text : str

The cell text.

loc : {'left', 'center', 'right'}, default: 'right'

The alignment of the text within the cell.

fontproperties : dict

A dict defining the font properties of the text. Supported keys and values are the keyword arguments accepted by FontProperties.

PAD = 0.1

Padding between text and rectangle.

auto_set_font_size(self, renderer)

Shrink font size until the text fits into the cell width.

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Patch to the given renderer.

get_fontsize(self)

Return the cell fontsize.

get_required_width(self, renderer)

Return the minimal required width for the cell.

get_text(self)

Return the cell Text instance.

get_text_bounds(self, renderer)

Return the text bounds as (x, y, width, height) in table coordinates.

set_figure(self, fig)

Set the Figure instance the artist belongs to.

Parameters:

fig : Figure

set_fontsize(self, size)

Set the text fontsize.

set_text_props(self, **kwargs)

Update the text properties.

Valid kwargs are

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float
animated	bool
backgroundcolor	color
bbox	dict with properties for patches.FancyBboxPatch
clip_box	Bbox
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
color or c	color
contains	callable
figure	Figure
fontfamily or family	{FONTNAME, 'serif', 'sans-serif', 'cursive', 'fantasy', 'monospace'}
fontproperties or font_properties	font_manager.FontProperties
fontsize or size	{size in points, 'xx-small', 'x-small', 'small', 'medium', 'large', 'x-large', 'xx-large'}
fontstretch or stretch	{a numeric value in range 0-1000, 'ultra-condensed', 'extra-condensed', 'condensed', 'semi-condensed', 'normal', 'semi-expanded', 'expanded', 'extra-expanded', 'ultra-expanded'}
fontstyle or style	{'normal', 'italic', 'oblique'}
fontvariant or variant	{'normal', 'small-caps'}
fontweight or weight	{a numeric value in range 0-1000, 'ultralight', 'light', 'normal', 'regular', 'book', 'medium', 'roman', 'semibold', 'demibold', 'demi', 'bold', 'heavy', 'extra bold', 'black'}
gid	str
horizontalalignment or ha	{'center', 'right', 'left'}
in_layout	bool
label	object
linespacing	float (multiple of font size)
multialignment or ma	{'left', 'right', 'center'}
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	None or bool or float or callable
position	(float, float)
rasterized	bool or None
rotation	{angle in degrees, 'vertical', 'horizontal'}
rotation_mode	{None, 'default', 'anchor'}
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
text	object
transform	Transform
url	str
usetex	bool or None
verticalalignment or va	{'center', 'top', 'bottom', 'baseline', 'center_baseline'}
visible	bool
wrap	bool
x	float
y	float
zorder	float

set_transform(self, trans)

Set the artist transform.

Parameters:

t : Transform

class matplotlib.table.CustomCell(*args, visible_edges, **kwargs)

Bases: matplotlib.table.Cell

A Cell subclass with configurable edge visibility.

get_path(self)

Return a Path for the visible_edges.

visible_edges

The cell edges to be drawn with a line.

Reading this property returns a substring of 'BRTL' (bottom, right, top, left').

When setting this property, you can use a substring of 'BRTL' or one of {'open', 'closed', 'horizontal', 'vertical'}.

class matplotlib.table.Table(ax, loc=None, bbox=None, **kwargs)

Bases: matplotlib.artist.Artist

A table of cells.

The table consists of a grid of cells, which are indexed by (row, column).

For a simple table, you'll have a full grid of cells with indices from (0, 0) to (num_rows-1, num_cols-1), in which the cell (0, 0) is positioned at the top left. However, you can also add cells with negative indices. You don't have to add a cell to every grid position, so you can create tables that have holes.

Note: You'll usually not create an empty table from scratch. Instead use table to create a table from data.

Parameters:

ax : matplotlib.axes.Axes

The Axes to plot the table into.

loc : str

The position of the cell with respect to ax. This must be one of the codes.

bbox : Bbox or None

A bounding box to draw the table into. If this is not None, this overrides loc.

Other Parameters:

**kwargs

Artist properties.

AXESPAD = 0.02

The border between the Axes and the table edge in Axes units.

FONTSIZE = 10

add_cell(self, row, col, *args, **kwargs)

Create a cell and add it to the table.

Parameters:

row : int

Row index.

col : int

Column index.

*args, **kwargs

All other parameters are passed on to Cell.

Returns:

cell : CustomCell

The created cell.

auto_set_column_width(self, col)

Automatically set the widths of given columns to optimal sizes.

Parameters:

col : int or sequence of ints

The indices of the columns to auto-scale.

auto_set_font_size(self, value=True)

Automatically set font size.

codes = {'best': 0, 'bottom': 17, 'bottom left': 12, 'bottom right': 13, 'center': 9, 'center left': 5, 'center right': 6, 'left': 15, 'lower center': 7, 'lower left': 3, 'lower right': 4, 'right': 14, 'top': 16, 'top left': 11, 'top right': 10, 'upper center': 8, 'upper left': 2, 'upper right': 1}

Possible values where to place the table relative to the Axes.

contains(self, mouseevent)

Test whether the artist contains the mouse event.

Parameters:

mouseevent : matplotlib.backend_bases.MouseEvent

Returns:

contains : bool

Whether any values are within the radius.

details : dict

An artist-specific dictionary of details of the event context, such as which points are contained in the pick radius. See the individual Artist subclasses for details.

See also

set_contains, get_contains

draw(self, renderer)

Draw the Artist using the given renderer.

This method will be overridden in the Artist subclasses. Typically, it is implemented to not have any effect if the Artist is not visible (Artist.get_visible is False).

Parameters:

renderer : RendererBase subclass.

edges

The default value of visible_edges for newly added cells using add_cell.

Notes

This setting does currently only affect newly created cells using add_cell.

To change existing cells, you have to set their edges explicitly:

for c in tab.get_celld().values():
    c.visible_edges = 'horizontal'

get_celld(self)

Return a dict of cells in the table mapping (row, column) to Cells.

Notes

You can also directly index into the Table object to access individual cells:

cell = table[row, col]

get_child_artists(self)

[Deprecated] Return the Artists contained by the table.

Notes

Deprecated since version 3.0.

get_children(self)

Return the Artists contained by the table.

get_window_extent(self, renderer)

Return the bounding box of the table in window coords.

scale(self, xscale, yscale)

Scale column widths by xscale and row heights by yscale.

set_fontsize(self, size)

Set the font size, in points, of the cell text.

Parameters:

size : float

Notes

As long as auto font size has not been disabled, the value will be clipped such that the text fits horizontally into the cell.

You can disable this behavior using auto_set_font_size.

>>> the_table.auto_set_font_size(False)
>>> the_table.set_fontsize(20)

However, there is no automatic scaling of the row height so that the text may exceed the cell boundary.

matplotlib.table.table(ax, cellText=None, cellColours=None, cellLoc='right', colWidths=None, rowLabels=None, rowColours=None, rowLoc='left', colLabels=None, colColours=None, colLoc='center', loc='bottom', bbox=None, edges='closed', **kwargs)

Add a table to an Axes.

At least one of cellText or cellColours must be specified. These parameters must be 2D lists, in which the outer lists define the rows and the inner list define the column values per row. Each row must have the same number of elements.

The table can optionally have row and column headers, which are configured using rowLabels, rowColours, rowLoc and colLabels, colColours, colLoc respectively.

For finer grained control over tables, use the Table class and add it to the axes with Axes.add_table.

Parameters:

cellText : 2D list of str, optional

The texts to place into the table cells.

Note: Line breaks in the strings are currently not accounted for and will result in the text exceeding the cell boundaries.

cellColours : 2D list of matplotlib color specs, optional

The background colors of the cells.

cellLoc : {'left', 'center', 'right'}, default: 'right'

The alignment of the text within the cells.

colWidths : list of float, optional

The column widths in units of the axes. If not given, all columns will have a width of 1 / ncols.

rowLabels : list of str, optional

The text of the row header cells.

rowColours : list of matplotlib color specs, optional

The colors of the row header cells.

rowLoc : {'left', 'center', 'right'}, optional, default: 'left'

The text alignment of the row header cells.

colLabels : list of str, optional

The text of the column header cells.

colColours : list of matplotlib color specs, optional

The colors of the column header cells.

colLoc : {'left', 'center', 'right'}, optional, default: 'left'

The text alignment of the column header cells.

loc : str, optional

The position of the cell with respect to ax. This must be one of the codes.

bbox : Bbox, optional

A bounding box to draw the table into. If this is not None, this overrides loc.

edges : substring of 'BRTL' or {'open', 'closed', 'horizontal', 'vertical'}

The cell edges to be drawn with a line. See also visible_edges.

Returns:

table : Table

The created table.

Other Parameters:

**kwargs

Table properties.

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float
animated	bool
clip_box	Bbox
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
contains	callable
figure	Figure
fontsize	float
gid	str
in_layout	bool
label	object
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	None or bool or float or callable
rasterized	bool or None
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
transform	Transform
url	str
visible	bool
zorder	float