matplotlib.patches.Rectangle

class matplotlib.patches.Rectangle(xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: matplotlib.patches.Patch

A rectangle defined via an anchor point xy and its width and height.

The rectangle extends from xy[0] to xy[0] + width in x-direction and from xy[1] to xy[1] + height in y-direction.

:                +------------------+
:                |                  |
:              height               |
:                |                  |
:               (xy)---- width -----+

One may picture xy as the bottom left corner, but which corner xy is actually depends on the the direction of the axis and the sign of width and height; e.g. xy would be the bottom right corner if the x-axis was inverted or if width was negative.

Parameters:
xy(float, float)

The anchor point.

widthfloat

Rectangle width.

heightfloat

Rectangle height.

anglefloat, default: 0

Rotation in degrees anti-clockwise about xy.
Other Parameters:
**kwargsPatch 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 or None
animated bool
antialiased or aa unknown
capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clip_box Bbox
clip_on bool
clip_path Patch or (Path, Transform) or None
color color
contains unknown
edgecolor or ec color or None or 'auto'
facecolor or fc color or None
figure Figure
fill bool
gid str
hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout bool
joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label object
linestyle or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth or lw float or None
path_effects AbstractPathEffect
picker None or bool 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
__init__(self, xy, width, height, angle=0.0, **kwargs)[source]
Parameters:
xy(float, float)

The anchor point.

widthfloat

Rectangle width.

heightfloat

Rectangle height.

anglefloat, default: 0

Rotation in degrees anti-clockwise about xy.
Other Parameters:
**kwargsPatch 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 or None
animated bool
antialiased or aa unknown
capstyle {'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clip_box Bbox
clip_on bool
clip_path Patch or (Path, Transform) or None
color color
contains unknown
edgecolor or ec color or None or 'auto'
facecolor or fc color or None
figure Figure
fill bool
gid str
hatch {'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout bool
joinstyle {'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label object
linestyle or ls {'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth or lw float or None
path_effects AbstractPathEffect
picker None or bool 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
__module__ = 'matplotlib.patches'
__str__(self)[source]

Return str(self).

get_bbox(self)[source]

Return the Bbox.

get_height(self)[source]

Return the height of the rectangle.

get_patch_transform(self)[source]

Return the Transform instance mapping patch coordinates to data coordinates.

For example, one may define a patch of a circle which represents a radius of 5 by providing coordinates for a unit circle, and a transform which scales the coordinates (the patch coordinate) by 5.

get_path(self)[source]

Return the vertices of the rectangle.

get_width(self)[source]

Return the width of the rectangle.

get_x(self)[source]

Return the left coordinate of the rectangle.

get_xy(self)[source]

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle as a tuple.

get_y(self)[source]

Return the bottom coordinate of the rectangle.

set_bounds(self, *args)[source]

Set the bounds of the rectangle as left, bottom, width, height.

The values may be passed as separate parameters or as a tuple:

set_bounds(left, bottom, width, height)
set_bounds((left, bottom, width, height))
set_height(self, h)[source]

Set the height of the rectangle.

set_width(self, w)[source]

Set the width of the rectangle.

set_x(self, x)[source]

Set the left coordinate of the rectangle.

set_xy(self, xy)[source]

Set the left and bottom coordinates of the rectangle.

Parameters:
xy(float, float)
set_y(self, y)[source]

Set the bottom coordinate of the rectangle.

property xy

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle as a tuple.