How to set the background color of a column in a matplotlib table?

To set the background color of a column in a matplotlib table, we can take the following steps −

• Set the figure size and adjust the padding between and around the subplots.

• Make a tuple for columns attribute.

• Make a list of lists, i.e., list of records.

• Make a list of lists, i.e., color of each cell.

• Create a figure and a set of subplots.

• Add a table to an axes, ax.

• Turn off the axes.

• To display the figure, use show() method.

Example

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt plt.rcParams["figure.figsize"] = [7.50, 3.50] plt.rcParams["figure.autolayout"] = True columns = ('name', 'age', 'marks', 'salary') cell_text = [["John", "23", "98", "234"], ["James", "24", "90", "239"]] colors = [["red", "yellow", "blue", "green"], ["blue", "green", "yellow", "red"]] fig, ax = plt.subplots() the_table = ax.table(cellText=cell_text, cellColours=colors, colLabels=columns, loc='center') ax.axis('off') plt.show()

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