matplotlib.patches.Rectangle

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

Draw a rectangle with lower left at xy = (x, y) with specified width, height and rotation angle.

angle

rotation in degrees (anti-clockwise)

fill is a boolean indicating whether to fill the rectangle

Valid kwargs are:

Property	Description
agg_filter	unknown
alpha	float or None
animated	[True | False]
antialiased or aa	[True | False] or None for default
capstyle	[‘butt’ | ‘round’ | ‘projecting’]
clip_box	a matplotlib.transforms.Bbox instance
clip_on	[True | False]
clip_path	[ (Path, Transform) | Patch | None ]
color	matplotlib color spec
contains	a callable function
edgecolor or ec	mpl color spec, None, ‘none’, or ‘auto’
facecolor or fc	mpl color spec, or None for default, or ‘none’ for no color
figure	a matplotlib.figure.Figure instance
fill	[True | False]
gid	an id string
hatch	[‘/’ | ‘' | ‘|’ | ‘-‘ | ‘+’ | ‘x’ | ‘o’ | ‘O’ | ‘.’ | ‘*’]
joinstyle	[‘miter’ | ‘round’ | ‘bevel’]
label	string or anything printable with ‘%s’ conversion.
linestyle or ls	[‘solid’ | ‘dashed’, ‘dashdot’, ‘dotted’ | (offset, on-off-dash-seq) | '-' | '--' | '-.' | ':' | 'None' | ' ' | '']
linewidth or lw	float or None for default
path_effects	unknown
picker	[None|float|boolean|callable]
rasterized	[True | False | None]
sketch_params	unknown
snap	unknown
transform	Transform instance
url	a url string
visible	[True | False]
zorder	any number

get_bbox()

get_height()

Return the height of the rectangle

get_patch_transform()

get_path()

Return the vertices of the rectangle

get_width()

Return the width of the rectangle

get_x()

Return the left coord of the rectangle

get_xy()

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle

get_y()

Return the bottom coord of the rectangle

set_bounds(*args)

Set the bounds of the rectangle: l,b,w,h

ACCEPTS: (left, bottom, width, height)

set_height(h)

Set the width rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_width(w)

Set the width rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_x(x)

Set the left coord of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

set_xy(xy)

Set the left and bottom coords of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: 2-item sequence

set_y(y)

Set the bottom coord of the rectangle

ACCEPTS: float

xy

Return the left and bottom coords of the rectangle

Examples using matplotlib.patches.Rectangle