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## Quickstart

`pip install plotly`
### Graph Objects

```
pip install plotly
```

```python
import plotly.graph_objects as go
fig = go.Figure()
fig.add_trace(go.Bar(x=["a", "b", "c"], y=[1, 3, 2]))
fig.show()
```

### Plotly Express

```
pip install plotly[express]
```

```python
import plotly.express as px
fig = px.bar(x=["a", "b", "c"], y=[1, 3, 2])
fig.show()
```

You'll also need to install a [supported dataframe library](https://plotly.com/python/px-arguments/#supported-dataframe-types).

See the [Python documentation](https://plotly.com/python/) for more examples.

## Overview
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Code released under the [MIT license](https://github.com/plotly/plotly.py/blob/main/LICENSE.txt).

Docs released under the [Creative Commons license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

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