title: What does it mean when they say 'stateful'?
body: <p>I have a question over the matplotlib - pyplot tutorial, the link is <a href="http://matplotlib.org/users/pyplot_tutorial.html" rel="noreferrer">here</a>
  I'm a native dutch speaker and can read standard english.
  My question is not about an example that doesn't work, but about the text.
  In the pyplot_tutorial chapter, working with multiple figures and axis, they use the words statefulness and stateful. I don't understand what they mean. We don't have a word for it in dutch. I did  a search on internet, but i didn't find anything. I think that stateful means complete, using all possibilities. </p>
  
  <p>I hope that somebody has an answer for me.
  I know that this isn't a question to ask here because it isn't about programming, but i don't know where else to ask it.</p>