Merge pull request #18068 from timhoffm/doc-savefig

timhoffm · web-flow · commit 12ef486a74bd · 2021-02-17T23:44:24.000+01:00
Add note on writing binary formats to stdout using savefig()
diff --git a/lib/matplotlib/figure.py b/lib/matplotlib/figure.py
@@ -2749,7 +2749,7 @@ def savefig(self, fname, *, transparent=None, **kwargs):
 
         Parameters
         ----------
-        fname : str or path-like or file-like
+        fname : str or path-like or binary file-like
             A path, or a Python file-like object, or
             possibly some backend-dependent object such as
             `matplotlib.backends.backend_pdf.PdfPages`.
