[Matplotlib-users] zoomed_inset_axes bbox_to_anchor not working

[darkside <in....@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make a zoom of a single plot. The problem is that the zoomed
axes yticks overlap with the yaxes so I tried to use the bbox_to_anchor
option in the zoom:
axins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax,
3,bbox_to_anchor=(0.4,0.4),bbox_transform=ax.transAxes, loc=2)

with different (x,y) parameters, but it's not working.

I also tried to move the figure by hand:
box = axins.get_position()
print box
axins.set_position([box.x0+0.5, box.y0,box.width, box.height])
box = axins.get_position()
print box

and I see that box numbers changing, but not in the plot.

Can anyone guess what I am doing wrong?

Thank you all!

PS: The full code for this plot is:

def plotvsdata(data,z,dl,nu):
    """
    Plot of z vs. Dl for different nu values
    """

    fig = p.figure(figsize=(12,8))
    ax = p.subplot(111)

    # FLRW light distance
    ax.plot(z[0],Dl_lflrw(z[0],0.3,0.7),'k--',label=r'Dl $\Lambda$FLRW')
    # mean data values
    ax.plot(data.redshift,data.distance,'r.',label='SCP data')

    p.xlabel('z',fontsize=18)
    p.ylabel('Luminosity distance',fontsize=18)
    p.grid(True)

    #axins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax,3,loc=2,bbox_to_anchor=(0.5,0.5))
    #axins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax,3,loc=2,bbox_to_anchor=(0.4,0.4)
,bbox_transform=ax.transAxes)
    axins = zoomed_inset_axes(ax,
3,bbox_to_anchor=(1,1),bbox_transform=ax.transAxes, loc=2)
    #box = axins.get_position()
    #print box
    #axins.set_position([box.x0+0.5, box.y0,box.width, box.height])
    #box = axins.get_position()
    #print box


    # Kantowski equation
    for i in range(len(z)):
        ax.plot(z[i],dl[i],label=r'$\nu={0:1.2f}$'.format(nu[i]))
        axins.plot(z[i],dl[i])
    axins.plot(data.redshift,data.distance,'r.', label='SCP data')


    #box = ax.get_position()
    #ax.set_position([box.x0,box.y0,box.width*0.8,box.height])

    ax.legend(loc=2,bbox_to_anchor=(1,1))


    x,y = (0.86,1.3)
    x2,y2 = (1,1.7)
    axins.set_xlim(x,x2)
    axins.set_ylim(y,y2)
    axins.tick_params(axis='both',labelsize=12)
    axins.xaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(2))
    axins.yaxis.set_major_locator(MaxNLocator(3))
    #box = axins.get_position()
    #print box
    #axins.set_position([box.x0+0.5, box.y0,box.width, box.height])
    #box = axins.get_position()
    #print box

    # draw a bbox of the region to zoom and connecting lines between it
    # and the zoomed box.
    mark_inset(ax,axins,loc1=1,loc2=3, fc="none", ec="0.5")
    #p.xticks(visible=False)
    #p.yticks(visible=False)

    p.draw()
    p.show()