[Matplotlib-users] Can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on same plot

2008-10-07 Thread chris
I don't know what dumb thing I'm going but I can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on the same plot!!! Why does this snippet give a *BLANK* plot when I run it? (Either line separately seems to be ok!?!?) import pylab x1 = pylab.arange(-10, 10, 0.01) x2 = pylab.arange( 0, 10, 0.01) f1 = [0 for

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on same plot

2008-10-07 Thread Johann Rohwer
On Tuesday, 7 October 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why does this snippet give a *BLANK* plot when I run it? > > (Either line separately seems to be ok!?!?) > > import pylab > x1 = pylab.arange(-10, 10, 0.01) > x2 = pylab.arange( 0, 10, 0.01) > f1 = [0 for e in x1] > f2 = [1 for e in x2] > pyla

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on same plot

2008-10-07 Thread Michael Droettboom
pylab.show() takes no arguments. The pylab interface is "stateful", meaning you run a series of commands in order and it usually does the right thing, rather than passing the results of one function into another (in general). Did you not get an exception when you ran your example? The followi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on same plot

2008-10-07 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:54:49PM +0200, Johann Rohwer wrote: > The autoscaling feature sets the y limits to [0,1] which means that > your lines are falling on the bottom and top x-axis which hides them. > Rescaling the y-axis will make the lines visible, e.g. > > pylab.ylim(-1,2) Thank you very

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Can't seem to plot 2 horizontal lines on same plot

2008-10-07 Thread chris
On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:19:39AM -0400, Michael Droettboom wrote: > Did you not get an exception when you ran your example? > > The following works for me: > > import pylab > x1 = pylab.arange(-10, 10, 0.01) > x2 = pylab.arange( 0, 10, 0.01) > f1 = [0 for e in x1] > f2 = [1 for e in x2] > pylab.