Re: [Matplotlib-users] padding axis limits automatically?

[Skipper S. <jss...@gm...>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Tony Yu <ts...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
>>
>> On 03/30/2012 08:47 AM, Skipper Seabold wrote:
>> > There is probably a simple answer to this, but I don't see it. How can
>> > I pad the axis limits automatically? For instance, in the below
>> > example, the x axis limits are the data points and the y limit is
>> > close. I want to have a function that pads the axis limit at least, by
>> > say, 10% of the range of x past the last data point without having to
>> > take my x values and calculate some sensible x limit. Is this
>> > possible?
>>
>> Does the margins() function or method do what you want?
>>
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.margins
>>
>>
>> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/axes_api.html?highlight=margins#matplotlib.axes.Axes.margins
>>
>> Eric
>>
> Thanks for the tip, Eric. I'm continually surprised by all the useful stuff
> that's nestled in the corners of matplotlib.
>

Indeed. Both solutions are nice. I've never noticed margins before,
even though this is a common issue for me. The documentation isn't all
the clear, what exactly to do with it, but set_xmargin and set_ymargin
cleared that up. Thanks.

Skipper