This is brilliant! I always say that matplotlib is more of a low-level charting API - you can do whatever you need, but it'll take a long time and a lot of cod

This is brilliant! I always say that matplotlib is more of a low-level charting API - you can do whatever you need, but it'll take a long time and a lot of code. Better is stuff like seaborn, pandas' charting support, and the new ggplot port and altair. Also underutilized is pandas' to_excel, to_clipboard stuff where you can then transfer to whatever application and back for editing / graphing purposes IMHO.