Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: imshow with axes like contour

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Christian" == Christian Kristukat <c.k...@ho...> writes:

    Christian> Thanks. I did not understand the meaning of 'extent'.

    Christian> Another thing I could not find which is probably
    Christian> possible as well: How can I display a label for the
    Christian> colorbar (not ticklabel)?


colorbar returns an Axes instance for the colorbar, so you can use any
of the Axes methods described at
http://matplotlib.sf.net/matplotlib.axes.html#Axes

    cax = colorbar()
    cax.set_title('A title')
    cax.set_ylabel('ylabel')
    cax.set_xlabel('xlabel')

or if your prefer "setp" style args

    cax = colorbar()
    setp(cax, title='A title', ylabel='ylabel', xlabel='xlabel')


JDH