matplotlib.patches.Circle

class matplotlib.patches.Circle(xy, radius=5, **kwargs)

Bases: matplotlib.patches.Ellipse

A circle patch.

Create true circle at center xy = (x, y) with given radius. Unlike CirclePolygon which is a polygonal approximation, this uses Bezier splines and is much closer to a scale-free circle.

Valid kwargs are:

Property	Description
agg_filter	a filter function, which takes a (m, n, 3) float array and a dpi value, and returns a (m, n, 3) array
alpha	float or None
animated	bool
antialiased or aa	unknown
capstyle	{'butt', 'round', 'projecting'}
clip_box	Bbox
clip_on	bool
clip_path	[(Path, Transform) | Patch | None]
color	color
contains	callable
edgecolor or ec	color or None or 'auto'
facecolor or fc	color or None
figure	Figure
fill	bool
gid	str
hatch	{'/', '\', '|', '-', '+', 'x', 'o', 'O', '.', '*'}
in_layout	bool
joinstyle	{'miter', 'round', 'bevel'}
label	object
linestyle or ls	{'-', '--', '-.', ':', '', (offset, on-off-seq), ...}
linewidth or lw	float or None
path_effects	AbstractPathEffect
picker	None or bool or float or callable
rasterized	bool or None
sketch_params	(scale: float, length: float, randomness: float)
snap	bool or None
transform	Transform
url	str
visible	bool
zorder	float

get_radius(self)

Return the radius of the circle

radius

Return the radius of the circle

set_radius(self, radius)

Set the radius of the circle

Parameters:

radius : float

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