On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Tony Yu <tsy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: >> >> On 03/30/2012 08:47 AM, Skipper Seabold wrote: >> > There is probably a simple answer to this, but I don't see it. How can >> > I pad the axis limits automatically? For instance, in the below >> > example, the x axis limits are the data points and the y limit is >> > close. I want to have a function that pads the axis limit at least, by >> > say, 10% of the range of x past the last data point without having to >> > take my x values and calculate some sensible x limit. Is this >> > possible? >> >> Does the margins() function or method do what you want? >> >> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.margins >> >> >> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html?highlight=margins#matplotlib.axes.Axes.margins >> >> Eric >> > Thanks for the tip, Eric. I'm continually surprised by all the useful stuff > that's nestled in the corners of matplotlib. >
Indeed. Both solutions are nice. I've never noticed margins before, even though this is a common issue for me. The documentation isn't all the clear, what exactly to do with it, but set_xmargin and set_ymargin cleared that up. Thanks. Skipper ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
