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Plotext 6 Released!

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Mike Driscoll
Sep 10, 2026
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Plotext released version 6.0.0 recently. Plotext is a Python package for creating plots in your terminal. With version 6.0.0, plotext has had a complete rewrite.

The biggest change is that plotest drawing is now done in a C++ kernel. The other big change is that plotext.figure is now the plot. Version 5 offered the same kind of thing, but in separate fun…

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