Matplotlib strives to produce publication quality 2D graphics for interactive graphing, scientific publishing, user interface development and web application servers targeting multiple user interfaces and hardcopy output formats. The 'pylab' mode of ipython uses matplotlib to emulate matlab graphics. NOTES: If you want to enable the optional subpackages tests and toolkits_tests you need to install nose and mock before matplotlib. To enable the above mentioned subpackages you have to set the variables DISABLE_TESTS and DISABLE_TK_TESTS respectively to "no". toolkits_tests doesn't get installed, if test and/or toolkits are disabled. The installation of toolkits is done automatically.