Saving figures to files in Matplotlib - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to save the figure as a PNG file named 'plot.png'.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6])
plt.[1]('plot.png')

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Asavefig

Bfigure

Cshow

Dplot

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using plt.show() instead of plt.savefig()

Trying to save the figure before plotting

Misspelling the function name

The savefig function saves the current figure to a file. Here, it saves as 'plot.png'.

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medium

Complete the code to save the figure as a PDF file named 'chart.pdf'.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([10, 20, 30], [1, 4, 9])
plt.[1]('chart.pdf')

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Ashow

Bsavefig

Cclose

Dfigure

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using plt.show() instead of plt.savefig()

Not specifying the file name with extension

Trying to save before plotting

Use savefig to save the figure to a file. The file extension '.pdf' saves it as a PDF.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to save the figure as 'output.jpg'.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([1, 2, 3], [3, 2, 1])
plt.[1]('output.jpg')

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Asavefig

Bsave

Csave_figure

Dsave_plot

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using plt.save() which does not exist

Misspelling savefig

Not calling the function on plt

The correct function to save a figure is savefig, not save.

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hard

Fill both blanks to save the figure as a high-resolution PNG file named 'highres.png' with 300 dpi.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([5, 10, 15], [2, 4, 6])
plt.[1]('highres.png', [2]=300)

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Asavefig

Bdpi

Cquality

Dresolution

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using wrong parameter name like 'quality' or 'resolution'

Not specifying dpi for high resolution

Using plt.show() instead of plt.savefig()

Use savefig to save the figure. The dpi parameter sets the resolution in dots per inch.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to save the figure as 'custom.svg' with transparent background and tight bounding box.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([7, 8, 9], [1, 3, 5])
plt.[1]('custom.svg', [2]=True, [3]='tight')

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Asavefig

Btransparent

Cbbox_inches

Dshow

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using plt.show() instead of plt.savefig()

Misspelling parameter names

Not using bbox_inches to reduce whitespace

Use savefig to save the figure. The transparent=True makes the background transparent. The bbox_inches='tight' trims extra whitespace.