Re: [Matplotlib-users] set fixed xrange

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Till Backhaus <ti...@ba...> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm using matplotlib (version 0.98.5.2) to generate a couple of bar-
> charts for a website.
> Until now I've not been able to find a way set the x axis to a fixed
> range.
>
> Suppose my data is turnover per hour. Now: If there is zero turnover
> at the beginning
> or the end of a period matplotlib omits that value and limits the
> xrange so that non-zero
> hours reside on the edges which would be confusing for the users.
>
> This is the code:
> import matplotlib
> matplotlib.use('Agg')
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(5,4),dpi=72)
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
> ax.set_ylabel('EUR')
> ax.set_xlabel('Hour')
> ax.set_xlim((1,24))
> ax.bar(data.keys(),data.values(),width=1,align='center')
> fig.savefig(filename)
>

Try moving the call to ax.set_xlim to *after* the call to ax.bar.

Ryan

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Ryan May
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School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
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