matplotlib.artist.kwdoc

matplotlib.artist.kwdoc(artist)[source]

Inspect an Artist class (using ArtistInspector) and return information about its settable properties and their current values.

Parameters:

artistArtist or an iterable of Artists

Returns:

str

The settable properties of artist, as plain text if rcParams["docstring.hardcopy"] (default: False) is False and as a rst table (intended for use in Sphinx) if it is True.