Saving to PNG, SVG, PDF in Matplotlib - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to save the plot 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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Ashow

Bsavefig

Cplot

Dfigure

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

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

Trying to save without calling savefig

Using plt.plot() to save the file

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 plot as an SVG file named 'image.svg'.

Matplotlib

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

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Asavefig

Bdraw

Cshow

Dfigure

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

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

Not specifying the file extension

Using plt.draw() which only updates the plot

Use savefig to save the plot as an SVG file by specifying the filename with '.svg' extension.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to save the plot as a PDF file named 'chart.pdf'.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([5, 6, 7], [8, 9, 10])
plt.[1]('chart.pdf')

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Asave

Bsave_plot

Csavefig

Dsave_image

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using plt.save() which does not exist

Using plt.savefig() but misspelling it

Trying to save without calling any function

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

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hard

Fill both blanks to save the plot as a PNG file with 300 dpi resolution.

Matplotlib

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

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Asavefig

Bshow

C300

D100

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

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

Setting dpi to a low value like 100

Not specifying dpi at all

Use savefig to save the plot and set dpi=300 for high resolution.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to save the plot as a PDF file with transparent background and tight bounding box.

Matplotlib

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
plt.plot([2, 4, 6], [1, 3, 5])
plt.[1]('output.pdf', transparent=[2], bbox_inches=[3])

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Asavefig

BTrue

C'tight'

DFalse

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

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

Setting transparent to False

Not using bbox_inches='tight'

Use savefig with transparent=True and bbox_inches='tight' to save a PDF with a transparent background and no extra whitespace.