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Plotly is pretty good in python.

Which other graphing tools are you comparing it to?

I think ggplot2 is a decent library, but in my opinion it gets more praise than it deserves.

Try https://plotnine.readthedocs.io/ or https://seaborn.pydata.org/

ggplot2 is not just a package, it's an implementation of a grammar language and this is what makes it so hard to substitute. plotnine tries to mimic it and is good for easy stuff but still far behind what can be easily done with ggplot2.