Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting two histograms

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Tommy Grav wrote:
> I have two lists that I would like to plot as two separate histograms  
> inside the same
> plot. However
>
> pylab.hist(h1list,26,facecolor='r')
> pylab.hist(h2list,26,alpha=0.3)
> pylab.show()
>
> seems to plot the two histograms with different x-y limits on the  
> axis. Also how can
> I force the bins to have the same start and end?
>
> Cheers
>    Tommy
>
>   

Tommy:  Use the 'bins' keyword to pylab.hist 
(http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matplotlib.pylab.html#-hist).

-Jeff

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