Re: [Matplotlib-users] Ratio of a plot using matplotlib

[Andrew S. <str...@as...>]

Yagua Rovi wrote:
> I use matplotlib since two days only. I have done some things pretty
> good but I am now in front of a problem an I didn't found a solution
> in the documentation.
>
> I would like to draw the surface defined by the lists X, Y and the matrix Z.
> I get to a nice graphical output with the following code.
> My problem is that the labels on the axes indicate values
> corresponding to the indices in Tables X and Y or something like that.
> I would like to see the values between xmin and xmax, ymin and ymax.
> If I uncomment the lines set_xlim and set_ylim, the axes are properly
> represented, but the picture is shrinked into a corner.
> How to put the good  values on the axes and correct the image full
> screen and correct scale ?
>   
I think you want the extent kwarg to imshow. See
http://www.scipy.org/Plotting_Tutorial for one example.