Change picture window title in pylab

Question

How to set shape window title in pylab / python?

fig = figure(9) # 9 is now the title of the window fig.set_title("Test") #doesn't work fig.title = "Test" #doesn't work 

Answer 1

If you want to change the window you can do:

 fig = pylab.gcf() fig.canvas.set_window_title('Test') 

Answer 2

Based on Andrew's answer, if you use pyplot instead of pylab, then:

 fig = pyplot.gcf() fig.canvas.set_window_title('My title') 

Answer 3

I used fig.canvas.set_window_title('The title') with fig obtained with pyplot.figure() , and it worked well too:

 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ... fig = plt.figure(0) fig.canvas.set_window_title('Window 3D') 

(It seems .gcf() and .figure() does a similar job here.)

Answer 4

You can also set the window title when creating a picture:

 fig = plt.figure("YourWindowName")