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Custom Figure Class
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You can pass a custom Figure constructor to figure if you want to derive from the default Figure.  This simple example creates a figure with a figure title




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.. code-block:: python

    from matplotlib.pyplot import figure, show
    from matplotlib.figure import Figure


    class MyFigure(Figure):
        def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
            """
            custom kwarg figtitle is a figure title
            """
            figtitle = kwargs.pop('figtitle', 'hi mom')
            Figure.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
            self.text(0.5, 0.95, figtitle, ha='center')

    fig = figure(FigureClass=MyFigure, figtitle='my title')
    ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
    ax.plot([1, 2, 3])

    show()

**Total running time of the script:** ( 0 minutes  0.022 seconds)



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