Re: [Matplotlib-users] "zig-zag" to represent suppressed 0 on axis?

[Francesco M. <fra...@gm...>]

2013/4/7 Kevin Hunter Kesling <kmh...@nc...>

> Hullo Matplotlib List,
>
> I'm looking for a way to represent on an X-Y graph the fact that an axis
> does not start from the origin.  When drawing by hand, I'll use a little
> zig-zag, lightning bolt, or slight space on the axis in question to
> represent this fact, just off from where the X and Y axis lines meet.
> How would I go about telling Matplotlib to do this?  After two hours of
> perusing the Axes documentation, and tooling around in an IPython shell,
> I appear to be striking out.
>
> If you are using a monospaced font to view this email, this may
> illustrate the functionality for which I'm looking:
>
>
>   150 ||      *                     *
>   145 ||  *                      *
>   140 ||         *        *
>   135 ||             *
>   130 ||
>       /
>        /  <---- "zig zag" I want
>       ||
>     0   --------------------------------
>        0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8
>
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Hi Kevin,

Have you given a look at this example:
http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/broken_axis.html

Francesco