tive plots and simple cases of
programmatic plot generation::

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    x = np.arange(0, 5, 0.1)
    y = np.sin(x)
    plt.plot(x, y)

The explicit object-oriented API is recommended for complex plots, though
pyplot is still usually used to create the figure and often the axes in the
figure. See `.pyplot.figure`, `.pyplot.subplots`, and
`.pyplot.subplot_mosaic` to create figures, and
:doc:`Axes API </api/axes_api>` for the plotting methods on an Axes::

    import numpy as np
    import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

    x = np.arange(0, 5, 0.1)
    y = np.sin(x)
    fig, ax = plt.subplots()
    ax.plot(x, y)


See :ref:`api_interfaces` for an explanation of the tradeoffs between the
implicit and explicit interfaces.
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