Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting two histograms

[Tommy G. <tg...@ma...>]

On Apr 6, 2007, at 1:04 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:

> 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).

Thanks. I noticed that on my own and for the first time in my python  
programming history
used a list comprehension to generate the bins list :) The histograms  
are now displayed
correctly.

Cheers
   Tommy