matplotlib.animation.PillowWriter

class matplotlib.animation.PillowWriter(*args, **kwargs) [source]

Bases: matplotlib.animation.MovieWriter

classmethod bin_path()

Returns the binary path to the commandline tool used by a specific subclass. This is a class method so that the tool can be looked for before making a particular MovieWriter subclass available.

cleanup()

Clean-up and collect the process used to write the movie file.

finish() [source]

Finish any processing for writing the movie.

frame_size

A tuple (width, height) in pixels of a movie frame.

grab_frame(**savefig_kwargs) [source]

Grab the image information from the figure and save as a movie frame.

All keyword arguments in savefig_kwargs are passed on to the savefig command that saves the figure.

classmethod isAvailable() [source]

Check to see if a MovieWriter subclass is actually available by running the commandline tool.

saving(fig, outfile, dpi, *args, **kwargs)

Context manager to facilitate writing the movie file.

*args, **kw are any parameters that should be passed to setup.

setup(fig, outfile, dpi=None) [source]

Perform setup for writing the movie file.

Parameters:	fig : matplotlib.figure.Figure The figure object that contains the information for frames outfile : string The filename of the resulting movie file dpi : int, optional The DPI (or resolution) for the file. This controls the size in pixels of the resulting movie file. Default is fig.dpi.