That does the trick!  Thanks Eric.

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On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> charles reid wrote:
>
>> Hi there -
>>
>> I'm wondering if there is a way to do this, since I haven't found anything
>> online or in the mailing list archives that covers it.  I'd like to draw a
>> line from inside the plot area to outside the plot area (see attached image
>> - the blue line is what I plot, but I'd like to know how to create something
>> like the red line, which goes beyond the axes of the plot).  I'm guessing I
>> would create an additional layer in the same figure, but make a layer
>> without axes.  However, I'm not exactly sure what I should do - add an
>> additional canvas?  a new renderer?  If you can point me to the right
>> documentation or give me some idea of how I should be doing this, I would
>> really appreciate it.
>>
>
> You can turn off the clipping to the axes box on a per-artist basis.
> Something like this:
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
> x = np.arange(10)
> y = np.ones_like(x)
> ll = plt.plot(x,y) # returns a sequence of line objects
> ll[0].set_clip_on(False)
> plt.axis([0,3,0,3])
> plt.show()
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>>
>> Charles
>>
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