title: How to pass arguments to animation.FuncAnimation()?
body: <p>How to pass arguments to <code>animation.FuncAnimation()</code>? I tried, but didn't work. The signature of <code>animation.FuncAnimation()</code> is </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>class matplotlib.animation.FuncAnimation(fig, func, frames=None, init_func=None, fargs=None, save_count=None, **kwargs)                 Bases: matplotlib.animation.TimedAnimation</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>I have pasted my code below. Which changes I have to make?   </p>
  
  <pre><code>import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
  import matplotlib.animation as animation
  
  def animate(i,argu):
      print argu
  
      graph_data = open('example.txt','r').read()
      lines = graph_data.split('\n')
      xs = []
      ys = []
      for line in lines:
          if len(line) &gt; 1:
              x, y = line.split(',')
              xs.append(x)
              ys.append(y)
          ax1.clear()
          ax1.plot(xs, ys)
          plt.grid()
  
  ani = animation.FuncAnimation(fig,animate,fargs = 5,interval = 100)
  plt.show()
  </code></pre>