Renderer Modules¶

Your code must at least implement a main() function that accepts the matplotlib instance as its only paramter and returns a figure

def main(plt):
    f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(6, 2))

    ax.plot(...)

    return f

Artists¶

Your function may return the figure alongside a list/tuple of additional artists:

def main(plt):
    f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(6, 2))

    ax.plot(...)
    lgd = ax.legend(...)

    return f, (lgd,)

RC Settings¶

Your module may define additional RC settings for Matplotlib and Seaborn as well as set a stylesheet and a pre_hook and a post_hook which will run before and after the plotting.

from contextlib import contextmanager

def main(plt):
    f, ax = plt.subplots(1, 1, figsize=(6, 2))

    ax.plot(...)
    lgd = ax.legend(...)

    return f, (lgd,)

sns_params = {
    'font': 'serif',
}

rc_params = {
    'font.size': 9,
}

stylesheet = 'grayscale'

def pre_hook(plt):
    plt.style.use('grayscale')

def post_hook(plt):
    pass