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

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

Il giorno 07/apr/2013 21:03, "Kevin Hunter Kesling" <kmh...@nc...> ha
scritto:
>
> At 2:34pm -0400 Sun, 07 Apr 2013, Francesco Montesano wrote:
>>
>> 2013/4/7 Kevin Hunter Kesling
>>
>>> 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
>
>
>> Have you given a look at this example:
>> http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/broken_axis.html
>
>
> Damn, I clearly missed that one.  And once I know what I'm looking for,
my eye goes right to it.  Sorry for the noise.
>
> On the other hand, I'm still such a noob at Matplotlib ... is there a way
to have one of the subplots take up more than its default 50% allotment?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin

hi Kevin,
you can give a look at the last two plots in this example
http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/demo_tight_layout.html or use
plot.axes providing the rectangle that you want

fra