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# matplotlib.artist.getp

`matplotlib.artist.``getp`(obj, property=None)

  Return the value of object’s property. property is an optional string for the property you want to return

  Example usage:

      getp(obj)  # get all the object properties
      getp(obj, 'linestyle')  # get the linestyle property

  obj is a `Artist` instance, e.g., `Line2D` or an instance of a `Axes` or `matplotlib.text.Text`. If the property is ‘somename’, this function returns

  > obj.get_somename()

  `getp()` can be used to query all the gettable properties with `getp(obj)`. Many properties have aliases for shorter typing, e.g. ‘lw’ is an alias for ‘linewidth’. In the output, aliases and full property names will be listed as:

  > property or alias = value

  e.g.:

  > linewidth or lw = 2