Thank you very much !
That did it for me.

If I get it right ax=twiny or ax=gca()
defines the plot type ?



On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Abhinav Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> or more appropriately you might need this
>
> from pylab import *
>
> setp(gca(), 'xticklabels', [])
> subplot(111)
> ax=twiny()
> y = [1, 2, 3, 4]
> x = [5, 4, 2, 2]
> plot(x, y, 'ro-')
> ylim(5,0)
> xlim(1,6)
> ax.xaxis.tick_top()
> xlabel('Y')
> ylabel('X')
> show()
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Oz Nahum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to plot an oceanographic profile using some ocean data I have.
>> The thing is that in oceanograhy it is common to display graphs where the
>> independent variable (x) is depth, and some other data (i.e salinity or
>> temperature) is plotted against it. The graph is supposed to look like this
>> for example:
>>
>>                                                          y
>>                _______________________________
>>               |                                                    *
>>               |                                                   *
>>               |                                          *  * *
>>               |                                        *
>>               |                                      *
>>               |                                     *
>>          x   |                                 *
>>               |                               *
>>               |                            *
>>               |                         *
>>               |                        *
>>               |                      *
>>               |                    *
>>               |                  *
>>               |                  *
>>               |                  *
>>
>>
>> so far I have managed to plot the graph with invert x axis, but I don't
>> know how to change the default graph option of intercept of axes in the
>> bottom left corner.
>> So I hope I made my question clear: how can I plot a graph with intecept
>> of axes in the upper left corner ?
>> Thanks,
>> Oz Nahum,
>> Department of Oceanography,
>> Hebrew University, Jerusalem
>>
>>
>>
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