Thank you very much, that can help for sure!
Unluckily matplotlib documentation is rather a jungle, just the lack of a
methods/properties index for each class makes very hard to find what one's
looking for.
Thanks again.
Greetings
neurino
2011/2/9 Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:47 AM, neurino <neur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, not that automatic...
>>
>> I wonder why matplotlib takes care of settings limits on data but fails in
>> a common situation so I'm forced to override it every time because I don't
>> know in advance what data I get...
>>
>> Thanks anyway.
>>
>> Cheers
>> neurino
>>
>>
> I did a little digging and I discovered a function I never noticed
> before... You can set a "margin" for an axis that can be used for
> autoscaling purposes.
>
> set_ymargin(self, m) method of matplotlib.axes.AxesSubplot instance
> Set padding of Y data limits prior to autoscaling.
>
> *m* times the data interval will be added to each
> end of that interval before it is used in autoscaling.
>
> accepts: float in range 0 to 1
>
> So, in your code, if I set ymargin to 0.5, then the limits will
> automatically be -0.5 to 1.5.
>
> I think this is what you are looking for.
>
> Ben Root
>
>
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