""" =========== Simple plot =========== A simple plot where a list of numbers are plotted against their index, resulting in a straight line. Use a format string (here, 'o-r') to set the markers (circles), linestyle (solid line) and color (red). .. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/fig_axes_labels_simple .. redirect-from:: /gallery/pyplots/pyplot_formatstr """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 4], 'o-r') plt.ylabel('some numbers') plt.show() # %% # # .. admonition:: References # # The use of the following functions, methods, classes and modules is shown # in this example: # # - `matplotlib.pyplot.plot` # - `matplotlib.pyplot.ylabel` # - `matplotlib.pyplot.show`