Save plot to image file instead of displaying it using Matplotlib

Question

I was trying to write a quick-and-dirty script to generate plots easily. For that, I was using the following code (I took it from the Matplotlib documentation): from pylab import figure, axes, pie, title, show # Make a square figure and axes figure(1, figsize=(6, 6)) ax = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8]) labels = 'Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Dogs', 'Logs' fracs = [15, 30, 45, 10] explode = (0, 0.05, 0, 0) pie(fracs, explode=explode, labels=labels, autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True) title('Raining Hogs and Dogs', bbox={'facecolor': '0.8', 'pad': 5}) show() # Actually, don't show, just save to foo.png But I don't want to display the plot on a GUI, instead, I want to save the plot to a file (say foo.png), so that, for example, it can be used in batch scripts. How do I do that? Select the correct answer from above options

Answer 1

When you are using Save plot you can use specify .savefig() as an extension to the file:- from matplotlib import pyplot as plt plt.savefig('foo.png') plt.savefig('foo.pdf') The use of .savefig() Will give a rasterized or vectorized output respectively, both which could be useful.