Basic plotting One of PyX's major strengths are its graph-plotting capabilities. PyX offers you a flexible system which, while providing sensible defaults, allows you to customize almost every aspect of the graph output. Such a flexibility comes at a price, though: you need to learn at least a little bit about the different components playing together in order to produce a graph. In this section, we try to give you a gentle introduction to one component after the other by by demonstrating how to plot various kind of data (from a file, a function mapping x values to y values, a parametric function). Furthermore, we explain how to do simple modifications to the axes of the graph and show how to add a graph key. After having gone through the introductory examples you should be able to freely go through the following sections of the examples, which examples will be devoted to a more detailed explanation of PyX's graph-plotting facilities. In particular, you might want to learn about the customization of the graph axes (see section [ Graph axes ../axis/index.html]), about further available graph styles (see section [Graph styles ../styles/index.html]) and about bar graphs (see section [Bar graphs ../bargraphs/index.html]).