Choosing the thumbnail figure#

This example demonstrates how to choose the figure that is displayed as the thumbnail, if the example generates more than one figure. This is done by specifying the keyword-value pair sphinx_gallery_thumbnail_number = <fig number> as a comment somewhere below the docstring in the example file. In this example, we specify that we wish for the second figure to be the thumbnail.

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# Code source: Óscar Nájera
# License: BSD 3 clause

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np


def main():
    """Plot expoential functions."""
    x = np.linspace(-1, 2, 100)
    y = np.exp(x)

    plt.figure()
    plt.plot(x, y)
    plt.xlabel("$x$")
    plt.ylabel(r"$\exp(x)$")

    # The next line sets the thumbnail for the second figure in the gallery
    # (plot with negative exponential in orange)
    # sphinx_gallery_thumbnail_number = 2
    plt.figure()
    plt.plot(x, -np.exp(-x), color="orange", linewidth=4)
    plt.xlabel("$x$")
    plt.ylabel(r"$-\exp(-x)$")
    # To avoid matplotlib text output
    plt.show()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 0.896 seconds)

Estimated memory usage: 178 MB

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