{"id":23443,"date":"2023-04-11T12:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T12:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/?p=23443"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:30:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:30:26","slug":"using-highcharts-for-python-basic-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highcharts.com\/blog\/integration\/using-highcharts-for-python-basic-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Highcharts for Python – Basic Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Highcharts Core<\/a> is the gold standard in JavaScript data visualization libraries, enabling you to design rich, beautiful, and highly interactive data visualizations of (almost) any kind imaginable, and to render those visualizations in your web or mobile applications. Take a look at some of the customer showcases<\/a> and the own demo gallery<\/a> to see what you can do with Highcharts.
Highcharts for Python<\/b> is a Python wrapper for the Highcharts Core JavaScript library<\/span><\/a>, which means that it is designed to give developers working in Python a simple and Pythonic way of interacting with Highcharts Core.
Highcharts for Python<\/b> will not render data visualizations itself – that\u2019s what Highcharts Core does – but it will allow you to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. Configure your data visualizations in Python.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Supply data you have in Python to your data visualizations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. Programmatically produce the Highcharts Core JavaScript code that will actually render your data visualization.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Programmatically download a static version of your visualization (as needed) within Python.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Tip<\/b>
    Think of Highcharts for Python as a translator to bridge your data visualization needs between Python and JavaScript.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    Getting Started with Highcharts for Python<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To use Highcharts for Python, like with any Python library, you first have to install it. That\u2019s super easy: just open your Python project (in your virtual environment \u2013 you are using virtual environments, right?) and execute:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    $ pip install highcharts-core<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n