Re: [Matplotlib-users] data grid problem

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

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 9:40 AM, rand0m <ra...@0x...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to matplotlib and I hope you can help me out with my question.
> When drawing for example a Rectangle() I have to specify it like the
> following:
> rect = Rectangle((1, 3), 2, 20, facecolor="#aaaaaa")
>
> Where 2 is the length and 20 is the height. (1,3) is for xy.
>
> Imagine a coordination system where x-axis should represent the value 0
> to 100. I would like to draw the rectangle from 50 to 60 on x-axis.  So
> I would specify:
>
> rect = Rectangle((50, 3), 10, 20, facecolor="#aaaaaa")
>
> But this does not work as desired because at the xtick 50 the x-axis
> does not "hold" the value 50 but 5 because I made xticks 1-100 with step
> 10. So my x-axis "holds" the values 1-10. But I need 1-100.
>
> If anyone knows what Im missing I d be glad to hear about it :-).
>
> thank you
>
>
I am not quite sure I understand what you mean.  Can you attach an image of
the plot you made so far?

Ben Root