Re: [matplotlib-devel] Stacked plotting in matplotlib

[Benjamin R. <ben...@ou...>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:

> On 2012/08/23 6:41 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 7:56 PM, Eric Firing <ef...@ha...> wrote:
> >> I'm not sure I understand what you are getting at, but I don't think
> there
> >> should be any interface changes for plot or for their log variants.
> >
> > I probably phrased my question poorly.  I'm just wondering, how would
> > one use the proposed stackplot function to obtain a stacked plot but
> > that used log axes (x, y or both)?
>
> One would follow the stackplot call with calls to xscale('log') and/or
> yscale('log').  This works fine for the x-axis (if x values are
> positive), but when the y-axis is log, the bottom region is not filled,
> presumably because it is trying to fill down to zero.  I haven't looked
> at the code, so I don't know whether there is some way of improving this
> behavior without the stackplot call knowing beforehand that it will be
> dealing with a log axis.
>
> Eric
>
>
This is a similar problem that we face with bar() and hist()...

Ben Root