Embedding matplotlib into Tkinter

- [Instructor] Matplotlib is a great library…for generating all sorts of plots and charts with Python,…because it's easy to use…and can produce some really professional looking figures.…Although matplotlib can create its own GUI windows…to display figures, for my solution…I wanted to created a custom GUI…that included a plot of the data…as well as entry fields for the user to input…the desired start and end times.…For creating relatively simple GUIs like this one,…I like to use Python's Tkinter module because it's included…as part of the standard Python distribution.…

Your end user will almost certainly have it already.…Working with the Tkinter module…is an entire course worth of material on its own,…so if you wanna learn more about using it, I recommend…viewing the Python GUI Development with Tkinter course.…For this video I'm just going to show you…how I was able to embed a matplotlib figure…within my Tkinter GUI.…Lines six and seven, are pretty standard…import statements for working with Tkinter,…and lines 10 through 12 import the parts of matplotlib…