Re: [Matplotlib-users] shading an area of a plot

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On 7/14/07, Adam Mercer <ram...@gm...> wrote:

> I'm trying to shade a couple of areas of a plot I'm creating, I need
> to shade the area above one line and the area below another.
> According to the documentation it looks like I need to use the fill()
> method but I can't get it to work, the code I use for creating the
> plot is below:


The cookbook entry

http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/SigmoidalFunctions

illustrates how to fill below lines -- it is a little more
complicated, because it fills below the intersection of two lines, but
it should help.  See also
http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/fill_demo.py


JDH