[Matplotlib-users] AXES properties

2010-01-31 Thread kc106_2005-matplotlib
BTW: I tried to use set_position to change the position of the axes label as suggested by previous posting. No effect. - Original Message Hello, I am creating a plot with multiple y-axis (up to 6) and twinx works pretty well. The problem is that there are too much wasted

[Matplotlib-users] how to add text below the legend

2010-01-31 Thread Ernest Adrogué
Hi, I would like to add some text relative to the legend, let's say below it, and I don't know how to get the legend coordinates so I can pass them to the text() method. Does anyone know how to do it? Alternatively, if there was a way to add text inside the legend itself, it would also do the

[Matplotlib-users] Problem formatting a 'step' histogram with a log scale and empty bins.

2010-01-31 Thread b9o2jnbm tsd71eam
Hi! I want to create a histogram with the step scale and I am finding an inconstancy when using a log scale. I have a very simple example without a log scale which works just as expected creating alternating bins with value one and value zero. from pylab import *

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem formatting a 'step' histogram with a log scale and empty bins.

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Firing
b9o2jnbm tsd71eam wrote: Hi! I want to create a histogram with the step scale and I am finding an inconstancy when using a log scale. I have a very simple example without a log scale which works just as expected creating alternating bins with value one and value zero. from pylab

[Matplotlib-users] Values returned by axis() do not match the actual axis in the plot window

2010-01-31 Thread photonicsphan
Hello, I have matplotlib widget set up in a PyQt 4 program. The axis is set for auto scaling. I'm using the following command to determine the upper y boundary: self.plotWidget.canvas.ax.axis()[3] where plotWidget is the name of the widget in my program. I get a number from this command

[Matplotlib-users] using subscripts and tex in labels

2010-01-31 Thread per freem
hi all, two quick questions about labels. first, is there a way to make subscripts/superscripts *without* using TeX in labels? For example, I use helvetica in all my labels and I want to plot something like: plt.xlabel(log10) where 10 is a subscript of log, but without doing:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using subscripts and tex in labels

2010-01-31 Thread Gökhan Sever
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:21 PM, per freem perfr...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, two quick questions about labels. first, is there a way to make subscripts/superscripts *without* using TeX in labels? For example, I use helvetica in all my labels and I want to plot something like:

Re: [Matplotlib-users] using subscripts and tex in labels

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Firing
per freem wrote: hi all, two quick questions about labels. first, is there a way to make subscripts/superscripts *without* using TeX in labels? For example, I use helvetica in all my labels and I want to plot something like: plt.xlabel(log10) where 10 is a subscript of log, but without

[Matplotlib-users] How to calculate relative positions between objects

2010-01-31 Thread Renato Alves
Hi everyone I've been going around matplotlib objects trying to find a way to pre-calculate positions depending on input. I'm trying to create a function that draws two barplots facing opposite directions. This is what I managed so far: ### import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt